G I L BOYNE’S PROFESSIONAL HYPNOTISM TRAINING COURSE

The Short-Term Radical of The Purpose and Function of Hypnotherapy Transforming Therapy: A New Approach to Hypnotherapy An Introduction to Hypnotism An Introduction to Self- Historical Origins of Self-hypnosis Nature of Understanding Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy The Gil Boyne Method of Self-hypnosis Conditioning Rules of the Mind Induction Methods, Testing and Deepening Techniques Trance Termination Definitions of Hypnosis by the “Recognized” Experts The Nature of Hypnosis How a Neurosis Develops GIL BOYNE'S Professional Hypnotism

Training Course HYPNOTISM TRAINING INSTITUTE OF LOS ANGELES Gil Boyne, Director CONTENTS

About Your Instructor Theory of the Unconscious The Short-Term Radical Hypnotherapy of The “Hypnotism Fever” Gil Boyne The Legal Basis for Hypnotherapist” The Purpose and Function of Hypnotherapy What is Hypnosis? Transforming Therapy: A New Approach to How Misunderstanding Develops Hypnotherapy Re-education An Introduction to Hypnotism Identifying Subconscious Fears An Introduction to Self-hypnosis Your Professional Responsibility Historical Origins of Self-hypnosis Learning to Play Roles Nature of Suggestion (28) Suggestibility Defined Understanding Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy Goal Setting and Suggestibility Hypnosis Defined Gullibility Defined Hypnotherapy Defined Changing Fixed Ideas Nature of Hypnosis Suggestibility Testing Trance: Key to the Mind How Hypnosis Achieves It’s Effect Flexibility Primary Characteristics of Trance Creating Response Exciting the Imagination Training the Subject Developing Mental Expectancy Effective vs. Rational Four Stages of Programming Benefits of Hypnosis Overcoming the Fear of Poverty Motivation Authority of Personal Appearance Interpreting the Problem Authority of Personal Expression Reviving Emotional Content Becoming a Source of Praising and Giving Credit Why You Are Wonderful Learning to Be Effective “The Unspeakable Truth” How to Practice Hypnotherapy The Gil Boyne Method of Self-hypnosis Putting Aside Childish Things Conditioning (88) Our View of “Reality” Rules of the Mind Reason vs. Emotion Induction Methods, Testing and Deepening Two Kinds of Thinking Techniques Subconscious Storehouse Trance Termination: A Client's Reluctance How Change Occurs to The Value of Respect End Trance Irrational Subconscious Beliefs Definitions of Hypnosis by the Communication Skills “Recognized” How the Client Will Test You Experts Understanding Hidden Messages The Nature of Hypnosis Developing Trust and Honesty How a Neurosis Develops ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR

Gil Boyne is internationally recognized helplessness in specific situations and train for his radical and provocative contributions them to develop coping skills. Boyne does to the profession of hypnotherapy. Students this by leading the client to recognize their have come to his institute from throughout inner creative intelligence and to define it as the U.S.A. and from numerous other the evidence of their “divine nature.” countries for intensive study to clarify the Here is a therapist who focuses on what concepts used so effectively in the Boynian people do and how they do it, without approach to therapy. imposing a set of limiting assumptions and He is hailed by many as one of the most theoretical constructs between his perception creative and effective hypnotherapists in the and the client's inner world. He teaches his field at this time, who easily hypnotizes the clients to alter their perception which most difficult motivates them to clients. Boyne GIL BOYNE REMAINS AN ICONOCLAST use their inner demonstrates an WITH STRONG AND UNUSUAL CONVIC- capabilities to cope extraordinary creatively with the variety and TIONS, WHO IS NEVER AFRAID OF CON- realistic demands of effectiveness in his FRONTATIONS. their lives. hypnotic inductions Boyne's and he teaches that fundamental orientation toward life, and the the initial induction must be suited to the central theme of his work, is that people client's needs which can be intuitively must learn to recognize their fullest perceived. His style is so innovative and his potential. He has concluded that no single success rate so high that many of his clients theory can explain or describe the variety are people referred to him by other therapists and complexity of individual functioning. or those who are themselves therapists. He teaches that hypnotherapy is a mystical He remains an iconoclast with strong (non-scientific) art based on a foundation of and unusual convictions, who is never afraid spiritual philosophy. of confrontations. “When I am doing my Boyne's understanding of hypnosis work I am very confident - I look and act seems purely descriptive. He offers no confident. I speak in a confident manner...” elaborate theoretical definitions and avoids These comments are a remarkable summary physiological or psychological explanations. of Boyne's life and style and provide an In fact, he explicitly states that no scientific insight into a man who is so convinced that explanation exists, despite the many he is right that he challenges the traditional different explanations from the “experts.” assumptions and techniques of the scientific and professional community and blazes his Even among his graduates there is some own path. confusion as to whether his effectiveness can be attributed to him as a person, or to his His teachings convey the essential unique perspective and wisdom. Some ingredients of his solution to the most become particularly effective at imitating his fundamental problem facing us all, i.e., how physical and verbal mannerisms in using the to overcome our client's feelings of techniques he developed and teaches. nature of words and the inherent flexibility Although imitation may be effective in many of language. circumstances, it seems clear that only by Boyne's ability to “read” people, to know learning the fundamental concepts that guide things that they do not know about him, and adopting his underlying themselves and to see through their attempts perspective, can we hope to create similar to hide information is remarkable. Each dramatic interventions with a majority of our movement, each word, each inflection of a clients. person is observed and noted, on the basis of He does not tell therapists exactly what his acquired understandings. As a result, he to do in every therapy situation, but he does enables clients to discover potentials they tell them how to think so that they will know did not realize they owned and helps them what to do. Such a teaching approach resolve personal problems that other demands a greater tolerance for ambiguity professionals had been unable to reach. than the presentation of specifics and Although Boyne has been recognized as requires a greater dedication to conceptual a powerful and effective clinician who can flexibility than the presentation of specific cure the most resistant clients, he challenges techniques for specific problems. the “primacy of the therapist” attitude that Boyne learned how to intervene in and pervades most other approaches and argues influence human thought and behavior by vehemently that it is the client's needs, paying close attention to everything the beliefs, abilities and general welfare which client says and does. He has a great define the character of the therapy. awareness of the meanings, implications and THE SHORT-TERM RADICAL HYPNOTHERAPY OF GIL BOYNE

Adapted from Miracles On Demand, is most interested in how a person First Edition experiences life - how he perceives it and the way he is emerging before our eyes. There are rare moments in time when a great teacher, educator and healer is gaining He has a rare ability to understand recognition and is sharing his discoveries language and to hear not only what a client with a select few who want to grasp the is saying but what they are implying and magic and immerse themselves in those what they really mean, and he does it discoveries in a new effort to radically without effort. benefit their fellow man. He seems to see the total picture. He Imagine the fulfillment, the self-worth finds a certain rhythm in events and knows and the success that came out of having what is coming and what is missing and studies with such innovators as Milton what a person is silent about. Erickson, Carl Jung, and other I see him as an artist in his therapy and great creative minds. Such an innovator is he teaches that doing therapy is primarily an among us now: Gil Boyne has achieved art form. He has an uncanny skill in making international acclaim as a new leader in immediate contact with people unique approaches to hypnotherapy, psychic therapeutically. He insists upon the client programming and behavior transformation. taking full responsibility for his present state Numerous books have been written of affairs and repeatedly asserts, “All of the about the unusual and innovative methods of answers are available in the subconscious. Dr. Milton Erickson, but until now, none We confuse ourselves by making up ques- have been written about the amazingly rapid tions. and successful methods of Gil Boyne. He works with you moment after Erickson was a creative genius who devised moment to keep you being real, and he is many unusual and beneficial therapy creating in every moment. He has a certain methods. Gil Boyne is the genius of short- repertoire, but his essential element is being term, result-oriented therapy. with what is happening from minute to In his training programs, Gil Boyne minute and dealing with whatever emerges. repeatedly demonstrates that it is possible to When Boyne is engaged in his work, he transform the lives of people who have been is exquisitely sensitive and yet he maintains programmed for failure, frustration and an incredible relaxed manner. His genius as unhappiness. a therapist is his improvisational creativity. His personal fascination with He seems to start out in a conventional style, transforming energy goes far beyond but when the inspiration comes the effect is teaching. He leads people into that energy so always dramatic and potent. He will that they can experience it in themselves. suddenly focus on the voice tone, a facial expression, a moistness in the eyes. He aims at integrating the various aspects of the self in an experiential way. He I see him as a catalyst bringing people into a more clear state. He sees what they alike report that his teachings not only alter need, and he seems to produce changes their way of doing therapy but transform magically. their personal lives as well. He is an extraordinary man yet always Boyne feels that most is remains a human being. His tremendous interminable and that treatment doesn't have intelligence joins with his heart to create a to be prolonged indefinitely. His major special relationship with each client. I know principle is that you can always go towards how happy and warm he is when others are health. He teaches about an “inner grace” seeing what he is seeing and are really with that we can connect with and that him. He is full of life, and it is the extent to hypnotherapy is always directed toward which he is willing to be human that is the health. He starts with the premise that divine spark in him. wholeness is the goal and we can go to wholeness because we have all the The style that makes his therapy ingredients. We don't have to “get rid of' successful is his use of his authority to anything! Instead, literally demand the we transform and client's response. HIS TEACHINGS NOT ONLY ALTER add so that a whole Boyne plays the THEIR WAY OF DOING THERAPY BUT person is created. role of authority TRANSFORM THEIR PERSONAL LIVES Hypnotherapy is a figure very well. It hopeful work; is one of the things AS WELL. psychoanalysis is that makes him very always pessimistic. powerful. “Hypnotherapy,” he says, “is not like surgery It's easy to fantasize that he's omniscient. or medicine. It's not just techniques that can He openly uses the feeling of power and be taught. To be a good Hypnotherapist, a control he has over those who come to him - person has to have an instinct for it - an ready to reveal themselves and terrified of inherent kindness and an ancient wisdom.” doing it. It helps him to get the job done. Boyne states, “A hypnotic process is the Many struggle against his power at first. beginning of an experience that can generate Later, they see him as their teacher and results that seem magical because of the realize that they can't learn anything unless brevity and conciseness of the therapy. It is they do what he says. Once they come to the people's choice because it is free of know this - they love him. psychiatric jargon and labels. It is brief therapy (when compared to traditional His major interest is in training, in therapies) because most of the practitioners finding people who are seriously willing to have escaped the brainwashing of the go into themselves to the depth required to academic - psychiatric establishment.” become a sensitive teacher-therapist. The process of training others to help people Boyne appears to stand as an older creates great demands on his inventiveness. warrior giving lessons to the younger and He warns his students against trying to less experienced seekers, sharing mimic him. The way that the master does it encouragement, strength, and leading the often becomes a ritual to his followers. student away from being overcome by irrational fears. He understands the necessity Neophyte and veteran hypnotherapists of courage to “throw off the chains.” He is a true charismatic who has broken is on a campaign to change the world, but through the boundaries and says to us, “The not just for personal glory. He is an active outer limits are far beyond your conditioned revolutionary, who has created a new profes- beliefs. I encourage you to try new things sion and brought it to its present form. and to do things that are not according to You can change fragmented, unhappy tradition.” people into integrated, happy people when He has changed many lives. It is the kind you make use of Gil Boyne's radical of greatness that he is after, to touch many principles of hypnotherapy. more people than he can touch himself. He THE PURPOSE AND FUNCTION OF VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS TEACHING HYPNOTHERAPY

HOW THE NEED DEVELOPED federal agencies as a guide in all areas having to do with employment or training, Traditionally, Hypnotherapy training has such as vocational rehabilitation and not been offered in universities because of a vocational counseling. view that Hypnotherapy is not a separate study nor a separate form of therapy, but “Hypnotherapy As A Career” is taught in rather is only a tool to be used by the state approved vocational/professional psychiatrist or clinical psychologist. In schools, which are operated exclusively in addition, university training for counseling the private sector. In California these professionals begins from a foundation of schools are called Private Post-secondary Freudian psychoanalytic theory which Schools, meaning that they offer vocational rejects hypnosis. Hypnotherapy training has and professional training for the person who never been offered as pan of a college or is beyond high school graduation level, and university curriculum, which qualifies the who wishes to prepare for a specific defined student for licensing examination in the occupation which is not taught in Healing Arts or Counseling professions. universities or colleges. In recent years, a few universities have Currently in California there are eighteen offered post-graduate studies in hypnotism schools of Hypnotherapy, and approximately which are taught by psychiatrists or clinical seven hundred new Hypnotherapists are psychologists attached to the universities. trained each year in these These teachers of Hypnotherapy restrict vocational/professional schools. Of these, participation in their training courses to approximately two-thirds come from within physicians, dentists, and psychologists. the state of California, and one-third come to Their code of ethics prohibits their members California from other states which as yet from teaching hypnosis to any person other lack such professional schools, in order to than a physician, dentist, or psychologist, acquire the specialized training. and even prohibits the writing of books that Although physicians and counseling might be used for teaching “how-to” therapists do not receive formal training in methodology. Hypnotherapy, a very small percentage of them develop an interest in the subject and HOW THE NEED WAS MET after a weekend of training hold themselves out to the public as experts in Hypnotherapy. In 1977, the United States Department of Labor held a series of public hearings which The general public has been led to led to the definition of “Master Hypnotist” believe that the major uses of hypnosis is by and “Hypnotherapist” as lawful occupational physicians in medical applications, or in titles which were then published in the dentistry, or in clinical psychotherapy. Fourth Edition of the Dictionary of Occupa- However, the training of Hypnotherapists tional Titles. This is the bible of has gone far beyond these limited employment research used by state and applications. The use of hypnosis for athletic motivation is a new and broad field, as is the hundred hypnotists and three major schools. use of hypnosis in education, the use of Two new schools have recently opened in hypnosis in law enforcement, as well as its New Zealand, and two schools now operate use in speech problems, weight control, in England. As a result, in the English - stop-smoking programs, and many others speaking world, the greatest percentage of which are not a part of the medical model. Hypnotism services are being offered by For example, at the Hypnotism Training professionally trained Hypnotherapists, and Institute of Los Angeles, we have trained not by physicians, dentists, or psychologists. more than seventy-five parole and probation Hypnotists with some degree of officers in the use of hypnosis in the entrepreneurial capacity are, in their first rehabilitation process. year of practice, earning $40,000 and The demand for formal training that upward. Those who specialize in certain began in California has now spread areas, such as Stop Smoking Clinics and throughout America. There are State Board Weight Control Centers, are often earning of Education - approved schools in eleven $50,000 to $90,000 annually. There is a other states in the U.S. Each state regulates great demand for these services because of these schools in the same manner that other the tremendous amount of publicity that is vocational schools are regulated: setting continually generated by the media standards for fire and building safety, throughout the world. utilizing a consultant to determine if the As Executive Director of the American curriculum is adequate to prepare the student Council of Hypnotist Examiners, I estimate for the occupation of Hypnotherapist, and there are currently more than six thousand ensuring that instructors have an adequate hypnotherapists practicing in the United background of experience to qualify them States, and I believe their numbers will reach for effective teaching. twenty thousand by the year 2000. I have served as hypnotherapy consultant to the OPPORTUNITIES FOR Michigan Board of Education and have also NEW CAREERS served informally as consultant to the states of Georgia, Washington, Utah, Maryland The offering of hypnotic services is a and Illinois. service occupation, and there are very few hypnotism centers that are large enough or The need for specialized consultancy is structured in such a way as to employ other created when agencies of the Board of hypnotists. Since it is an entrepreneurial Education seek information about this new service it attracts those people who desire to form of vocational/professional training, and be self directing in their employment. The customarily turn to a psychiatrist or psy- acceptance and use of hypnosis by the chologist who is unaware of existing laws general public has swelled to all time highs. and has a strong prejudice and bias against Since I entered the profession in 1956, the the training of nonlicensed persons. wave of interest in hypnosis has grown to Therefore, the agency is unable to get a fair proportions which are unprecedented in its and impartial reading and evaluation based history. This extraordinary demand for upon the law as it exists; instead the law is hypnotic services in America has spread interpreted as some professionals think it world-wide, so that in Australia, for should be written. example, there are now more than three FOR FURTHER DOCUMENTATION As Director of the Council which regulates vocational/professional schools I suggest that further information be teaching Hypnotherapy, Ms. Miller can secured from Marion Miller, Interim supply information on the legal aspects and Director of the Council for Private Post- implications of federal and state laws, and secondary and Vocational Education. the implementation of the Educational Act in California. Write to: Gil Boyne, Executive Director American Kenneth A. Miller, Executive Director Council of Hypnotist Examiners Council for Private Post-secondary and 312 Riverdale Drive Vocational Education Glendale, California 91204 1027 - 10th Street, 4th Floor Telephone: (818) 242 - 1159 Sacramento, California 95814 Telephone: Fax: (818) 247 - 9379 (916) 322 - 1855 TRANSFORMING THERAPY: ANEW APPROACHTOHYPNOTHERAPY

HOW THE NEED WAS CREATED A. It creates psychic dependence on the Modem hypnotherapy has become the therapist. most dramatically effective short-term B. It delays and avoids coping with real-life therapy developed to date. The increasing problems. numbers of highly specialized C. It often leads to financial exploitation. hypnotherapists graduating from state- licensed hypnotherapy schools threaten to undermine the basic assumptions that Myth #3 support traditional psychoanalytic The “theory of the unconscious” psychotherapy. attempts to persuade us that the mythical These three mythological assumptions “id” is a vast repository of destructive, are: primal energy and that we must spend our lives attempting to tame and re-socialize the “id” or we will live in constant turmoil and Myth #1 upheaval. Everyone needs and can benefit greatly from psychotherapy. Truth Nowhere in this philosophy is there any Truth hint of the spiritual nature of transformation, Almost all of the world's population or that in each of us is a Divine Intelligence have not only survived without that knows all the answers and is the true psychotherapy but most have lived satisfying essence of our being. and productive lives. By attaching an atheistic (humanist) superstructure to an unproven, unworkable Myth #2 collection of concepts and labeling the entire The motivations for human behavior are structure as “scientific theory,” so complex and deep-rooted that the psychoanalysts attempt to retain control of effectiveness of psychotherapy is directly the high ground that once belonged to the equated with the extended duration of holy men. treatment. Secular humanism in psychotherapy has now taken on all the aspects of a religion, but it has no greater preemptive claim to Truth serve as the basis of “healing the soul” than Therapy is most effective as short-term the tenets of the great historic monotheistic intervention to produce behavioral change. religions. Therapy of more than limited duration is Since morality is the basis of law, whose usually counterproductive because: morality shall we now consult? If someone's values are to prevail, why not ours instead of This realm of the Spirit can best be those of Karl Marx or and entered into by hypnotherapists who others who would deny our Divine recognize their work as the “redirecting of connection? an invisible, indefinable spiritual energy to assist another to enter into a State of Grace.” The principles upon which America was We come into a State of Grace through faith founded are rooted in a belief in a Supreme in a Higher Power. This faith is acquired Creator (“In God We Trust”) and the Divine through persistent pursuit and continuous Nature of man. Now these precious beliefs reinforcement of a belief until it becomes have been weakened by our acceptance of fixed in the subconscious mind and cannot the new religion of psychoanalytic psycho- be changed by intellectual debate or therapy. When we surrender our belief in skeptical inquiry. It is a commitment to the God we become free to believe in anyone. “substance of things unseen but perceived The true ministry of the Hypnotherapist through inner spiritual sensing.” is to heal the self-induced blindness that has created a cloud of unknowing. AN INTRODUCTION TO HYPNOTISM

Hypnotism is the most practical science overawes everyone who witnesses its of the age. It enters into our everyday life, indisputable facts and its marvelous and confers advantages that cannot be manifestations. It overthrows the theories of acquired through any other medium. Its judges and philosophers and theologians, practice is no longer a mere pastime for and shakes the faith of material scientists in amusement and sensation: as professional their preconceived opinions. It supplants the practitioners of the highest standing now physician and the surgeon and cures the recognize its value and seek to profit by its afflicted and deformed whom they benefits. Scientists regard it as a natural pronounced beyond the hope of recovery. It power, for ages kept dormant, but apparently breaks the chains of demoralizing and destined to perform an active part in the destructive habits. It comforts the sorrowing welfare and and brings peace of development of THE REWARD IS GREAT THAT mind to those future generations. distracted by the FOLLOWS THE PERSISTENT STUDY OF perplexities of life. To study It abolishes periods hypnotism is to HYPNOTISM: FOR IT IS A SCIENCE of time and extents fathom the hidden THAT BESTOWS UPON ITS DEVOTEES A of distance. It mysteries of magic causes the lame to and human miracles POWER THAT SEEMS ALMOST walk and strength- and making them SUPERHUMAN. ens the weak. It matters of absolute checks the hand of knowledge. Its possibilities are almost death and snatches almost from the grave the boundless and are interwoven with every grim destroyer's victims. It loosens the phase of human life, and its powers are tongue of the stammerer, overcomes the largely responsible for the successful self-consciousness of the socially shy and terminations of modem business and social tempers the impetuosity of the rash undertakings. enthusiast. To mankind, in every walk of It does not require years of study to life, hypnotism is a blessing - leading his become a hypnotist, for this great blessing to innermost thoughts to higher and nobler mankind is a natural endowment possessed things: developing his powers to plan and to by practically everyone and capable of being execute and giving him social, financial and developed by all who will devote to its study intellectual eminence among his fellow-men. the patience and energy always so necessary All this, and more is Hypnotism. for the development of natural talents. The reward is great that follows the Excerpt from PRACTICAL LESSONS IN persistent study of hypnotism: for it is a HYPNOTISM, William Wesley Cook, M.D. science that bestows upon its devotees a 1901. power that seems almost superhuman. It AN INTRODUCTION TO SELF-HYPNOSIS

When you were a small child, most of subconscious attitude and trained you to your functions passed through your strive for - and win - success through subconscious mind. You were receiving and creative thinking, conscious and reacting to every minute of subconscious. If your parents did not give every day. As soon as you were able to you enough positive suggestions, it is now understand words, the people around you up to you to give them to yourself. made a deep impression on your The subconscious mind can accept and subconscious mind with every single thing act upon positive and creative suggestions they said about you. Having almost no just as readily as it does negative and means of discriminating, you could not destructive ones. reject any suggestions, good or bad. If people close to you As you grow repeatedly HYPNOTISM TEACHES YOU HOW from infancy to impressed you with FOOLISH IT IS TO ACCEPT ANY adulthood, your negative opinions conscious mind about yourself, such SUGGESTION OF FAILURE, AND GIVES becomes stronger as that you were YOU THE ABILITY TO REMAIN CALM and acts as a censor, bad, or stupid, or accepting or clumsy, you could AND RELAXED NO MATTER HOW rejecting not help TENSE THE SITUATION MAY BE. suggestions before subconsciously they go into the accepting their low subconscious mind. estimate of you. As a result, your subconscious mind becomes a treasury of ideas, principles and This kind of conditioning affects your modes of behavior, or in other words, whole outlook right through your mature develops a personality. The conscious mind years. I am pointing this out to show the continues to act as a censor all through your power of suggestion and not because I life, and it is the conscious mind which must advocate your holding any animosities be set aside with hypnosis in order for toward those who brought you up. Most suggestions to reach the subconscious mind adults are ignorant of the destructive and be acted upon. influence of negative suggestion and are themselves handicapped because of negative Your conscious mind has a limited suggestions they received during childhood. memory of experiences, but a more complete memory is available in the Perhaps you were more fortunate in subconscious mind. Hypnotists put the childhood. Perhaps your parents and other client's conscious mind into a trance in order people who were close to you emphasized to get him to recall childhood experiences. your good traits by suggesting that you were In the same way the hypnotist can obtain in- bound to succeed, and by saying that you formation from the subconscious mind or had a marked ability, a lovable personality implant suggestions there. The main thing is and other good qualities. If they did this, to bypass the censorship of the conscious they suggestively built up in you a confident mind. Healthy and positive suggestions like these will set in motion creative forces and Many adults have allowed too many powers in you that you may not know you negative suggestions to come through to have, forces that can relieve you of fears and their subconscious mind, and therefore have worries and lift you to an exalted pinnacle of fears, inferiority feelings and more complex well being. disturbances because of it. In order to estab- lish the positive attitude you need for success in life, you must make a sustained Excerpt from HOW TO USE HYPNOSIS by effort to allow positive and only positive Dr. David F. TRACY. 1952 suggestions to pass through your conscious mind. To master the study of Hypnotism will give you perfect confidence in yourself, whether you are standing in front of ten or ten thousand people. It teaches you how foolish it is to accept any suggestion of failure, and gives you the ability to remain calm and relaxed no matter how tense the situation may be. In other words, you team always to have your emotions under control. Hypnotism gives you a wonderful un- derstanding of human nature and shows you how to relate to most of the people with whom you come in contact. It is a wonderful feeling to know that for the first time in your life, you have actually gained confidence and the ability to help another human being through the power of suggestion. Once you learn of the tremendous power - both negative and positive - that suggestion has, you will never again allow yourself to accept any negative suggestion. It all boils down to this: successful achievement, health and happiness are the result and reward of constructive, positive suggestion. Feelings of inferiority, failure, misery, sickness and even death can all result from destructive suggestions. Keep giving yourself suggestions of strength, power, accomplishment and achievement, radiant health, happiness, peace and serenity, love and friendliness. HISTORICAL ORIGINS OF SELF-HYPNOSIS

In the past, self-induced trances were explanations were intimately concerned with associated with magic and witchcraft. meaning and life. The history of folk Spontaneous trances frequently medicine and ancient medicine has accompanied man's attempt to gain control consistently shown man's concern with of his world. Because the study of science controlling life and seeking guidance for the was so primitive, man sought answers from future. Because man did not know what to supernatural sources. This was the do, he turned to external guidance and prevailing belief at the time, since man had external control by combining words, not yet discovered his own ability to cause actions, and objects to stave off negative change. Because self-hypnosis was not to be effects of the unknown and the unexpected conceptualized for many centuries, the self- such as illness. The appearance of illness induced trance, as associated with healing was attributed to forces outside the control and change, was not recognized as a natural of man. Yet the power of words in the phenomena in its own right. healing process has been demonstrated The history of self-hypnosis has included universally, in the Hindu Sanskrit, Egyptian eras in which the following perspectives hieroglyphic, the Babylonian cuneiform have dominated: writings, and other early writings. 1. Spiritual perspectives include the In order to understand fully current power of words, rituals, meditation, and mythology about hypnosis and self- trance cures. hypnosis, we need to look back to these magical rituals. The importance of myth in 2. Religious perspectives include the development of hypnosis and self- prayer, and biblical quotations. hypnosis needs to be revealed. 3. Prescientific perspectives include Primitive man held dialogues with observations of mind-body correlation, himself in order to find his answers for recognition of man's inner life. meaning, health, and life. Later, as 4. Scientific perspectives include consciousness expanded, the conversations and self-magnetism. within were transformed to prayer with an 5. Medical perspectives include the external deity. Hinduism presents a religion contributions from Liebault through in which the central belief is that a part of Erickson, Elman and Barnett. the deity exists in each individual, and therefore, each person is in part divine. 6. Psychological perspectives include Thus, profound religious and existential Coue and , self-hypnosis communications were experienced within training, tape-assisted self-hypnosis, written the individual. Healing practices were instructions. generally carried out by the educated priests and medicine men, since illness was SPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVES attributed to malevolent acts of evil spirits. The priest relied on “his own religious The spiritual perspective on healing was feelings” and the practice of healing was the earliest form of therapy in that restricted to those who possessed a higher, deeper knowledge of the secret nature of secrecy intensified the power of the words things. Appeals to the gods were made orally and the priesthood. or in writing. By the powerful words and In ancient India, the priest could appeal images designed to coerce and control to the gods orally or in writing; his education “deities” that contributed to the illness, the permitted him this flexibility. The treatment words of power healed. provided by the priest was highly verbal and The apparent marriage between magic ritualistic, consisting of words in the form of and religion was one of convenience in that incantation and prayer and activities both dealt with occult, superhuman forces of consisting of sacrifice set forth in the learned nature in an effort to control these for the writings. In the real sense, the approach to benefit of man. However, a hierarchy of healing was holistic. That is, therapy power existed, with the learned priests addressed itself both to mind and to body. having the greatest authority and the Prayers, hymns, sacred dances, and magician having less, much like the medicines in the form of herbs were distinction between the professional and the combined to enlist godly help and to expel lay person today. evil demons. Words became powerful weapons to foil the demons, thus restoring wellbeing. Whereas early man believed help Words and Actions was external, his words and his rituals in the The role of words has held a primary healing situation may be construed as place throughout the history of man. constituting a self-hypnotic approach. Therapy was based on rituals or words and Words have continued to dominate actions of worship (prayer), sacrifice healing because language accompanies and (abstinence and action), and purification shapes action; meaning attaches to behavior. (cleansing). Specific rituals included The nature of language and its relationship incantation, prayer, and sacrifice. The verbal to the body are complementary. Body and prayers, bolstered by actions of sacrifice and mind interact. Language is a trigger for brain purification, generated powerful expec- activity within the individual, and language tations. The setting, the rituals themselves, can be a response to brain activity; for and the words heightened the expectations example, a word or idea can trigger a variety and motivation of the patient, and of responses such as movement, thought, consequently, they affected the outcome. feeling, or self-control. In ancient times, Incantations consisted of “words of these responses were believed to come from power.” The words had power because they the gods. Because dreams were regarded as enabled change in the life of the individual; divine, coming from the gods, efforts were that is, they propitiated the gods, and they made to increase dream activity and to ousted the demons, the then-believed cause enhance the clarity of the vision. During for illness. Within the Egyptian culture, the body sleep, the opportunity for extant belief was that the words were a great communication between the gods and the mystery and should not be revealed to the soul was awake. First, the priest chanted, general populace lest they be misused. and the patient repeated the chant. The Perhaps this secrecy was the shamanic way patient then retired to the shrine of the god of limiting the practice of healing and was whose inspiration was desired and slept in deemed necessary because so many people the portico of the temple. The patient had lacked understanding. Nonetheless, the achieved a state of readiness and had only to hypnosis and meditation are alike. Finally, in wait for something to happen, that is, to meditation, the contents of thought are have a dream. This expectancy reflects the unimportant; the major focus is on the power (defined by the patient) of images. meditation experience itself (personal The dream sometimes contained the experience). Early meditation experience diagnosis, but also, frequently, it contained provided an opportunity to communicate the cure. Dreams, as we understand them with the gods, that is, mindfulness or today, contain day residues, unconscious selflessness; however, in hypnosis and self- meanings and conflicts, and unfinished hypnosis, the contents of thought - its very business. Dreams can hold the resolution of meanings (e.g., images, dreams, affects, that conflict and thus present an image of the reveries) are important. Research today cure. continues to seek physiological distinctions between the states of meditation and self- hypnosis. Because no clear-cut differences The Mantra have been found to date, most theorists Another way of using words of power today believe the difference lies in the was the chanting of a mantra. A mantra is a subjective experience itself. spoken charm or hymn addressed to the During the fifth century B.C., “sleep gods. Mantras were used for many purposes. temples” where people came for a 9-day Specific mantras and charms existed for incubation or sleep treatment were very prayer, for hope, for protection, for harmony, popular in Egypt, Greece, and Rome. During for avoidance of discord, and for success. the treatment, the goddess Isis would reveal The repetition of the mantra was intended to herself to the sufferer and offer diagnosis charm the gods to help and to entreat the evil and treatment. The Greeks, in contrast, spirits to leave. Some mantras sound like would dream of Aesculapius, the god of hypnotic inductions. medicine, who would cure the individual or Thus, words were important tools to give treatment instructions. Aesculapius negotiate with the outside powers could communicate at two levels with his controlling life and to obtain guidance from patients: at the somatic level of the symptom these powers, the gods. Man was not yet and at the spiritual level. His spiritual self-reflective, so he was unable to use communication, that is the treatment by words to direct himself. Today, our scientific words, identifies him as the father of body of knowledge includes the use of rapport. In these sleep temples, involuntary words to direct oneself through self- cures were attained when the patient suggestion. achieved a state of receptiveness through what now might be construed as autosugges- Meditation tion. The setting, the instructions, and the “treatment” itself prepared the patient to In meditation, suggestions are given as expect a dream that was understood to be a hymns, instructions, and verbal incantations direct communication with the gods. What before the actual practice of meditation, the patient heard, saw, felt, and experienced which is experienced by the individual were all via sensory pathways. The patient alone. The early roots of self-hypnosis can understood that the gods would be recognized in meditation practices. communicate with him through a dream. Proponents can be found who claim We may conclude that the ingredients of fall upon Adam” (Genesis 1:3). In the Book sleep treatment were an association of of Isaiah (55:11) it is written: “So shall my spoken word, amulet, and trance. word be that that goeth forth out of mouth. It shall not return unto me void, but it shall As part of the treatment, amulets (objects accomplish that which I please …” Another believed to possess some occult or biblical passage describes the “holding of supernatural power) were used to reinforce the eyes.” This notion of the power of the the words of power. These objects were eye in inducing trance is widespread. The believed to exert an irresistible power to early precursors to the power of the eye can attract, fascinate, or influence. The amulet be found in Genesis (44:21), “to set the was combined with words to fascinate the eyes” on anyone is to view him or her with gods as a treatment intervention. Sometimes favor. In Matthew (20:15), the “evil eye” water was used to “magnetize” the amulet, figuratively speaks of the envious or which enabled the patient to treat him - or covetous (cf. Deut. 15:9). In Hebrews (4:12), herself with the “magnetized” amulet. This the following indicates the power of God's reference to self-treatment by the patient via Word: “For the Word of God is quick, and a transitional object is an important link to powerful, and sharper than any two edged clinical self-hypnosis. The transitional sword.” God's Word was imbued with His objects used today are usually scripts and Power - “The Word once spoken runs an tapes. independent course and it possesses and The preparations given to patients intrinsic force - a creative principle” heightened their expectations that something (Genesis 1:3). In Jewish , rab- would happen. When they were ready, binical scholars have recommended what something indeed did occur, such as a dream appears to be a practical self-hypnotic or an image, leading to revelation, that is, a technique: “Concentrate on the great name bringing to light of that which had been of God; to imagine its radiant letters hidden. The operation of demand between their eyes and to fix all their characteristics incorporate: the situation, the attention on it.” Such practical maxims have expectations, the states of readiness, dreams become part of Jewish oral law. and subconscious revelations, and, most im- The New Testament also has citations portantly, the power of words to induce emphasizing the power of words to affect us, change. although the connection had yet to be made that man could give personal meaning to RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVES words. Words were considered powerful A religious perspective on healing is because their meanings came from God; for reflected in the Bible and religious example take the passage “In the beginning teachings. God was the necessary and was the Word and the Word was with God sufficient cause for healing and health. Thus, and the Word was God” (John 1:1). What when illness struck, prayer, ritual, and greater power can exist than the Word of sacrifice are sought. God? Saint Paul described himself in a state of trance in which his mind and body were Writings from the Old Testament separated while praying in the temple at contain references to hypnotic-sounding Jerusalem (Acts 22:17). In fact, the word behaviors. The Bible refers to Adam's sleep: trance comes from the Greek word Ekstasis, “And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to which denotes the state of one who is 11 out of himself.” Such, were the trances of Peter independently of experience has led to a new and Paul (see Acts 10:11, 11:5, 22:17). The concept of man's place in the world and to a trance or ecstasy was an absorbed state of belief in the powers of the mind. mind preparing for the reception of a vision (see also Cor. 12:14). Even today, the perception of mind being separated from body is a frequently described experience in hypnosis, meditation, and self-hypnosis. A patient may describe the experience of observing his/her body below while floating near the ceiling. Another patient may learn in self-hypnosis to separate or dissociate a body part such as an arm that is painful from his/her mental experience. The power of words in religion provides a channel for man to gain control of his life and understanding from God. The Word expresses God's power to act. Words are used in prayer to thank God, to ask for God's help, or to seek quiet acceptance. Words of prayer renew hope and courage. Because of it the patient could appeal directly to God on his or her own behalf. The dialogue itself could be direct. All change was attributed to the will of God and not to the will of the patient.

PRESCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVES History reveals the increasing awareness of the mind's influence on the body. Early descriptions of such mind-body interaction have been found in writings dating back 3,000 years. For example, the fakirs; in India induced trance states in themselves. In such a self-induced state they appeared to feel no pain and to engage in seemingly unbelievable physical feats. The dawning understanding that thoughts can affect illness and health underlies the discovery that man can reason and arrive at conclusions. The notion that the mind can function somehow Mind-Body Interaction In 1774, Jean-Joseph Gassner, a priest very interested in exorcism, instructed a Hippocrates noted that “when the eyes patient on what she could do to heal herself. are closed, there are times when the soul can This instruction in self-healing appears to be discern diseases in the body.” The Greeks the first explicit reference to the individual's believed that the operation of the soul was power to help himself. revealed from the “light” or understanding obtained in dreams. The Abbe De Faria noted subjects who SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVES went into trances upon crossing his threshold even before he could perform an Animal Magnetism induction. Thus, the foundation was Anton Mesmer, a 18th-century Viennese developed over many centuries for a physician who believed in the influence of dynamic interaction of mind and body that the planets on the human body, used implies the existence of experience beyond magnetic steel plates in his “treatment” of consciousness. This disease. He taught pathway si- HISTORY REVEALS THE INCREASING that a fluid, when multaneously AWARENESS OF THE MIND'S universally diffused, contributed to the influenced the earth, possibility of a dy- INFLUENCE ON THE BODY. EARLY planets, and all namic, interactive DESCRIPTIONS OF SUCH MIND - BODY animated bodies. He use of self-hypnosis: called this fluid a mind divided into INTERACTION HAVE BEEN FOUND IN “animal mag- conscious and WRITINGS BATING BACK 3,000 YEARS. netism.” Mesmer subconscious began with external components makes directed self-hypnosis magnets and then moved from the external meaningful. magnets to the therapist's inner ability to influence magnetic fluid through his or her own movements. These movements were Beginning of Self-Direction known as the “mesmeric pass.” Mesmer Between the 15th and l7th centuries, the attributed the locus of power to the focus on rationality and personal power magnetist himself. He had transformed conflicted with the belief in demonic power from supernatural forces to the power possession. Many people were accused of of the therapist. being possessed by spirits, demons, and evil The genius of Mesmer was to apply the forces. On the other hand, Paracelsus, in the theory of animal magnetism to illness by 16th century, believed that everything in the demonstrating scientific principles that were world derived from divinity but that accepted at that time. He reduced illness and maintenance of worldly things came from cure to one basic underlying principle: the stars. He hypothesized that these two illness was an imbalance of the universal influences endowed man with a double fluid, and cure was a correct distribution of magnetism, generating an effective secretion the fluid. Having “scientific” guidelines in animated things. His thinking led to the enabled Mesmer to approach illness in a eventual theory of animal magnetism and to pseudo-rational manner, with a set of pro- the origin of magnetic medicine. cedures and goals. The Marquis de Puysegur (1751 - 1825) Shortly thereafter, Dr. Elliotson reported was a French aristocrat who described a sleeping patient who, in the sleep state, artificial somnambulism. He observed and predicted that she would come to her senses reported a calm, sleeplike state during mes- on a specific date. This suggestion predates merism. He noticed that when mesmerized Erickson's use of date-naming by the patient his subjects were both awake and asleep. for cure. In addition, Elliotson used para- Thus, he was the first mesmerist to demon- doxical techniques with patients. For strate the coexistence of internal and example, he simultaneously told a patient external sets of ideas and attitudes in a not to eat, and in the same breath advised single individual within the somnambulistic her to eat. state. Puysegur, too, believed that the At about the same time, effective ingredient in mesmerism was the demonstrated subjective and suggestive will of the magnetizer. elements of magnetism in 1846. The Abbe de Faria, a l9th-century Independently, he rediscovered the Portuguese priest, described somnambulism subjective origin of hypnosis. He observed or lucid sleep. He selected good subjects on both his own student hypnotizing himself the basis of sleep ability. and a girl hypnotizing herself by looking at her wall. Braid concluded that patients can De Faria was the first magnetizer to throw themselves into “trance.” In addition, report that the power to enter the hypnotic Braid believed that the brain can receive, state lies within the subject. This without conscious awareness, external observation became crucial for the future impressions and act on these impressions, development of self-hypnosis. In addition, again without awareness. Braid was himself de Faria recognized that his own demeanor fascinated by the phenomenon of self- vis-a -vis the patient respected the patient's hypnosis and engaged in his own personal power. For example, his induction was explorations of self-hypnosis. frequently one word, “donnez” or sleep, permitting the patient to bring about this Although the phenomenon of self- result. hypnosis was not understood by the 19th century, it was observed. Most theorists Deleuze, a respected 19th-century believed that the ability to enter a magnetic French naturalist, also advocated animal or hypnotic state by oneself resulted from magnetism. Deleuze reported that repetition of entering hypnosis. After a hypermnesia was a characteristic of trance. number of repetitions, the person could then He also reported that in waking and trance throw him - or herself into a mesmeric or states the somnambulist seemed like two hypnotic state. different persons. Thus, he had superseded de Faria in anticipating the notion of Animal magnetism was a popular theory multiple ego states. at one time. The observations of the state appeared to validate it. Patients did respond Because he was well respected, Deleuze to the “magnetic” treatments, even. if only was able to bring magnetism back to because their imaginations had been excited. respectability by advocating privacy, Animal magnetism, then, seems to be the comfort, and avoidance of interruptions. first systematic use of the imagination to Patients reported a perception of warmth and help patients with illness. heaviness. By the end of the 19th century, Albert Moll, a psychologist, had placed hypnosis similar to those used by the mesmerists, within the subject matter of psychology. He while attributing the results to the will of recognized the operation of individual God. also became popular differences as well: “The hypnotic process is during the end of the 19th century. a continuum, one which includes the waking state.” He wrote a text on hypnosis that is MEDICAL PERSPECTIVE still remarkably modem. Moll recognized that some people can generate a self-initiated A medical perspective on healing was hypnotic state: “Mere are cases in which the organized around the practice of medicine. idea of the appearance of an affect is not The medical period of self-hypnosis began aroused by a second person, but is generated with Braid in 1843, when he personally used by the subject himself.” Like his self-hypnosis. Shortly thereafter, Liebault predecessors, Moll believed that an act of claimed that anyone could teach himself to will can allow the idea of hypnosis to influence his own body by concentrating become so powerful that hypnosis is attention on a simple thought. This induced. A second route to self-hypnosis is perspective focuses on techniques that the through repetition. When a subject is patient could use to influence his body: frequently hypnotized by another person, he concentration, a desire to get well, and the or she can enter self-hypnosis. power of words to cure. Autosuggestions, according to Moll, are Continuing this professional use of made in different ways, the various paths of words in the service of treatment, James perception. Each of the organs of sense is a Braid, a Manchester doctor, renamed door of entrance for suggestion. Moll magnetism by coining the term believed, however, that the most common “neurohypnosis.” He carried out pathway for suggestion was speech and the experiments, including self-hypnotic performance of a movement accompanying experiments in which he personally used that speech. Thus, Moll was attuned to the self-hypnosis. He demonstrated that (1) power of words. In training subjects for when hypnotized, subjects usually did what hypnosis, Moll believed that habit plays a they were told to do; (2) when brought out major part and that repetition and practice of hypnosis, some subjects sometimes forgot are required. what had happened. He believed that forgetting indicated a dual state of mind, In Europe, the l9th-Century German implying the existence of an inner world of Mesmerists emerged incorporating both being. This inner world he felt to be Franz Anton's belief in animal magnetism important for the development of self- and spiritualistic notions into their religious hypnosis. beliefs. Simultaneously, the New England spiritualists Andrew Jackson Davis, Phineas Influenced by Braid around 1850, a well- Quimby, and were known to-do country doctor named Auguste for their work in the spiritualistic movement Liebault used verbal suggestions with his that combined religious beliefs with the patients. He explained to them that he applied health movement. The period of neither exercised nor possessed mysterious transition from mesmerism to spiritualism powers. He put to rest the then major myth can be recognized as a time that the lay about hypnosis. He offered scientific person or non-professional used techniques explanations and presented curative, positive suggestions. Like Braid, he believed that the phenomenon of hypnosis was purely heightened state of suggestibility toward one subjective. In addition, he believed that person only. Janet developed a anyone could teach himself to influence his comprehensive theory of hysteria, own body by concentrating attention on a hypothesizing that hysterical symptoms simple thought and the desire to get well. resulted from the presence of subconscious automatic fixed ideas that were dissociated and affected the patient, even though out of Charcot's Medical Model the patient's conscious awareness. Hypnosis Jean-Martin Charcot (1825 - 1893), a in Janet's view permits the identification and world-renowned neurologist in France who reintegration of these dissociated ideas. established the Paris school, believed Hypnosis and suggestion were separated mistakenly that hypnosis was pathological in Janet's thinking. That is, suggestion could and was a characteristic residing in the occur without hypnosis, and hypnosis could patient. He attempted to explain hypnosis occur without suggestion. Janet's legacy to according to specific phenomenon: lethargy, self-hypnosis is the recognition of catalepsy, and somnambulism. Charcot dissociation and automatic fixed ideas. In attempted to explain the underlying cause of addition, his analysis of the separation of these stages of hypnosis as being bodily conduct and speech, is a critical physiological. His explanations were not observation relevant to the concept of the substantiated. Nonetheless, he gave the mind-body relationship, so essential in phenomenon of hypnosis credibility. He understanding and treating psychosomatic strongly influenced many physicians, among problems. them Sigmund Freud. He did not add to the fund of knowledge about self-hypnosis, although his recognition that the hypnotic Suggestion state was attributable to the patient was Professor Bernheim, a convert of correct, because his recognition was clouded Liebault, presented the notion of suggestion. by the misunderstanding that hypnosis was “If the mind accepts an idea as true and the an indication of pathology. idea is reasonable, it tends to actualize itself.” Thus, in Bernheim's eyes, hypnosis is The Subconscious treatment by suggestion. Suggestion is an action by which an idea is introduced to the A student of neurology at Salpetriere, brain and accepted. Bernheim pointed out (1859 - 1947), a brilliant French the value of repetition: Any suggestion must therapist, became interested in the be accepted by the self to be successful. He phenomenon of hypnosis. In his work with believed that “experience teaches that the patients, he discovered the operation of simplest and best method for impressing the subconscious fixed ideas. To him we owe subject is by words.” the term “subconscious.” In addition, he identified intermediate levels of subconscious ideas that might become fixed Auto-Hypnosis through association or substitution. Such Josef Breuer (1842 - 1925), an internist, association or substitution led to a narrowing recognized spontaneous auto-hypnotic states of the field of consciousness or dissociation. in hysteria. In his famous treatment of Anna Finally, Janet stressed the role of rapport in 0 (“Studies In Hysteria”), he described the therapy in which the patient exhibits a manner in which two states of consciousness Salpetriere and later collaborated with exist side by side. He explained that those Breuer in treating hypnoid hysteria with the behaviors that occur during self-hypnotic abreactive method. In 1887, Freud used states are frequently forgotten; that is, the hypnosis in a conventional way to facilitate patient is amnesic regarding what happened. suggestion. Initially, he supported the idea of Because of the unavailability of these self-hypnosis. In fact, he wrote a paper memories to consciousness, the hysterical describing the phenomenon. However, he symptom remains restricted to the self- believed that not all patients could be hypnotic state. In addition, because the hypnotized. In addition, he came to believe spontaneous self-hypnotic state tends to that his hypnotized patients fabricated recur, the symptom is strengthened by the fantasy material and would forget it when repetition. Repetition has been advocated by the trance was terminated. He further felt the early clinicians in strengthening the that hypnosis distorted the therapeutic symptomatic behaviors as well as newly relationship. Therefore he abandoned learned behaviors. Self-hypnosis as a way of hypnosis in 1892 in favor of his new analytic providing curative suggestions by repetition method of free association. He substituted paved the way for the possibility of under- the defense neuroses for hypnoid hysteria. In standing habitual reveries. It also permitted the same vein, he de-emphasized the role of understanding of behaviors that appeared dissociation. Instead, he gave particular quite paradoxical, for example, automatic emphasis to repression. Freud was uncom- behaviors, resistance to new learning, and fortable with hypnosis for several reasons. multiple personality. He was dissatisfied because he could not hypnotize every patient, and because those Breuer was responsible for the “talking who were hypnotized frequently did not cure” leading to abreaction of feelings. His enter a deep trance. He found the description of Anna O's treatment is a classic transference reaction to be so strong as to picture of a spontaneous altered state of lead to acting-out behavior by the patient. consciousness. The talking cure, in the hypnoid state, revealed crucial forgotten Nonetheless, Freud's method of material. The patient remembered both what psychoanalysis presents some interesting had happened and the feelings that had similarities to the hypnotic situation. The accompanied the event. In this manner, he patient is relaxed in a supine position on the speculated that a patient could remember couch with eyes closed. The patient is what happened and express those feelings instructed to free associate, that is, to say that had been split off from conscious whatever comes to mind without censorship. awareness. The symptom then disappeared. This situation is similar to self-stimulating The talking cure became very popular, and situations that trigger spontaneous self- Sigmund Freud continued to collaborate hypnosis. The act of focusing on one's inner with Breuer. world leads to a fading of external realities into the background. Hysteria to Defense Neurosis One wonders how psychoanalysis would have unfolded had Freud not abandoned Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939) was a hypnosis. Freud's abandonment of hypnosis neurologist who soon became interested in as a therapeutic method occurred because the treatment of hysteria. He learned the hypnosis at that time was too unwieldy and practice of hypnosis from Charcot at encrusted with transference problems. CONCLUSION The view of clinical self-hypnosis as an integral part of therapy and as a means for individuals to transform themselves from within through the power of the mind, by controlling pain, reducing anxiety, and to change frustrating behaviors is part of the currently accepted strategy of many hypnotherapy programs. NATURE OF SUGGESTION

Suggestion is an idea that reaches the mind Mental Suggestion through the five physical senses, and/or the A mental suggestion can be created by sixth sense, intuition. In addition, all sensory the observation of physical action. For input routes continually receive data from instance, a cigarette commercial showing verbal, nonverbal, intraverbal and snow and skiers suggests coolness. Hearing extraverbal communications. This is done sounds without words can also convey not only through the five senses, but through meaning. When listening to the radio and other sources, such as thermal, pressure hearing the sound of a door closing, your sensations and kinesthetic awareness. mind tells you that someone has left the Suggestibility is a measurement of the room. The sound of brakes squealing carries intensity with which the brain and nervous a suggestion of a forceful, quick stop. system respond to incoming ideas. The detection of a movement on the skin Suggestion plays an integral role in can also convey a suggestion. If your eyelids inducing hypnosis and is a vital instrument were closed and a small piece of thread fell once hypnosis is induced. Suggestion is a on your face, you could easily interpret it as major tool in successful persuasion of the an insect. subconscious mind. Suggestibility alone does not fully Environmental Suggestion account for hypnotic response. A major Environmental suggestion is any implied factor is a mind-set termed “mental suggestion obtained from the environment, expectancy.” The rule of the mind is, “what the surroundings of furniture, clothing, is expected tends to be realized.” Another appearance, temperature, smell, lighting, major factor is the quality of the relationship personality, etc. A pretty girl, a garden and which develops between therapist and moonlight suggests romance, of course! The subject and is enhanced by hypnotic rapport. implied suggestion from the surroundings when someone's residence and furniture is Verbal Suggestion obviously very shabby and second-hand, is a suggestion of poverty. The rock singer Verbal suggestion refers to Madonna's personality conveys the communication by words and sounds. Non- suggestion of blatant sexuality. verbal refers to gestures, grimaces and other facial expressions. Intraverbal focuses on the modulation of the voice, such as vocal QUALITY OF RESPONSE inflections, etc. Extraverbal deals with the The quality of response differs from one implications of words or phrases. The entire subject to another. The subject responds complex of mannerism, voice inflection and according to the way he interprets the implied meanings plays a major role in suggestion and his willingness to accept it. facilitating perception, suggestibility, Instructions can be suggested to the subject awareness and response. but whether they are accepted and acted upon depends on the ability of the operator to persuade the subject to agreement. responses of their ordinary conscious world become irrelevant. Although a hypnotic state will enable subjects to respond more effectively to The tendency to respond to the hypnotist suggestions, directions and instructions, it in childlike, simple, and literal ways is a does not guarantee that they will do so. typical subconscious form of response. It is a Suggestions must be presented in a manner fundamental shift in the mode of thought, that is meaningful and useful to the perception and response of the subject. individual subjects, given their unique Simply reassuring subjects that there is personalities, backgrounds, and needs; no longer any reason for them to listen otherwise the subjects will be unable or consciously to what is being said and that unwilling to comply. Hypnosis does not they can just relax and drift off while their create automatons who will automatically subconscious takes over the responsibility of understand or obey the hypnotist's every doing so is often highly effective. command. Subjects remain true to themselves, no matter how deeply In hypnosis individuals are more open to hypnotized, and will decide how they want ideas, and they more readily consent to to comply. examine them. Subjects can reject anything the operator Hypnosis is of value in every aspect suggests and respond in accordance with where instruction, advice, counsel, guidance their subconscious needs. Suggestions and reassurance are significant. unacceptable to their total personalities lead Hypnosis enables the hypnotherapist to to a rejection of the suggestion or to a exchange ideas and information directly transformation of them so that they can be with the client's subconscious. It frees the satisfied by pretense behavior. subconscious to apply its capacities fully to The type of programming you give to a the problem at hand. client depends upon the attitude of that Every hypnotic suggestion should be client toward you and the therapeutic given in language permitting “simplistic process and the behavioral change desired. interpretations,” because the trance tends to Suggestions can always be given in a limit the spoken word to its literal meaning. form that the client can accept easily. Precision and conciseness of instruction al- Positive suggestions can be presented in a lows subjects to respond in terms of their way that the client cannot argue against. In own understandings. The literalness of the order to use hypnosis with the greatest trance state causes the client to have a new success, present your ideas to clients so that pattern of listening. they can accept and examine them for their Poorly-trained hypnotherapists try to fit inherent value. the clients to a specific technique of When in a deep trance, clients hear and suggestion, rather than adopting the respond to the Hypnotherapist primarily technique to the clients in accord with their with the subconscious mind. What people in actual psychic projections and needs. The a trance hear, see, know or do, is a function “standardized technique,” or the giving of of the perceptions, knowledge, and response identical suggestions to different subjects, is patterns of their subconscious minds. During merely a measure of the lack of knowledge trance, the concerns, learnings, and and training of the Hypnotherapist and is one of the primary causes of failure in that pertains to conscious thinking and hypnotherapy. another tone of voice that expresses ideas which you intend for the subconscious, you Hypnosis does not develop from mere are establishing the duality of the mind. repetition. It comes from stimulating your When you give a suggestion to a client, feel client's ability to accept a concept and to it, sense it and mean it with sincerity. If you respond to it. It is the manner, form and style want a client to feel relaxed, express it in in which you present the programming to the your voice. client that is important. When you speak to a person, you let them know, “I'm speaking to you!” You can THE ART OF SUGGESTION speak directly with your eyes or your voice In learning to hypnotize you must first or with a gesture. You must always give learn to recognize suggestibility. As you your entire attention to the client. gain experience you will develop an intuitive feeling about the suggestibility of the The rapidity, individual but in the insistence and THE POWER OF HYPNOSIS IS NOT beginning of your confidence with career, you must which the ONLY THE POWER OF THE PERSON give tests to suggestions are HYPNOTIZING BUT ALSO THE POWER discover if your given serve to subject is highly prevent the subjects OF THE HYPNOTIC SUBJECT. suggestible. (See the from making any section titled effort to create a semblance of order. “Suggestibility Testing”) The subject must Learn to use hesitation and emphasis, be somewhat relaxed and free of tension in since they both intensify the suggestion. order to evaluate the reaction of his Suggestions are given to the subject, but subconscious mind to your suggestions. the execution of them, the rapidity of Avoid the use of mechanical devices to response, and their effectiveness are the hypnotize, whether it be flashing lights or a responsibility of the subject, and they are whirling disc or the “Brain Wave dependent upon processes taking place Synchronizer.” You can become dependent within him. upon the device to hypnotize, but hypnosis Make general statements that a person cannot be induced by an inanimate object. can apply to specifics within his own life. Hypnosis is an intimate relation of two The art of programming depends upon the minds primarily at the subconscious level. use of words and the meaning of words. Hypnosis and self-hypnosis today Use emotionally charged words and continue to rely heavily on the power of select words that carry a wealth of affective words to affect the self We have seen the meaning. early recognition of the power of words in the earliest scriptures: words incite, moti- Hypnosis is a science of vate, and soothe and can also be destructive. intercommunication. Use your voice- Words can lead to hope and motivation or to inflections, intonations, pauses, hesitations- fear and despair. Words become tied to in every possible way to convey your symbols and take on the powerful meaning meaning. When you use one tone of voice of those symbols. Words then impact: they can energize, inspire, or torment. Words of soft murmur to a brisk conversational level power can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy. over the course of several sentences so the subject is scarcely aware a change has taken Words have power and energy in that place. Always try to hold the thought “we they produce ideas in the mind of the are going to do something together for your listener. The acceptance of these ideas is one good but as I have more experience than of the chief components of hypnosis. you, I will act as your guide.” However, responses to identical words pre- sented by the same person in an identical In hypnotherapy, words are the principle manner may vary widely from one person to tools used. In both reading and listening, another. Suggestion plays a very great part in words are used to convey ideas. Each word our everyday lives. We are constantly carries an impact and has an effect on the exposed to it. It can be used deliberately and nervous system. Each phrase or idea purposefully to our physical and emotional possesses a greater or lesser amount of benefit. energy depending upon the associations it arouses in a person. Suggestion may Imagine someone be given to the THE POWER OF HYPNOSIS IS NOT standing behind a hypnotic subject in ONLY THE POWER OF THE PERSON partition and a normal, crisp becoming aware conversational tone. HYPNOTIZING BUT ALSO THE POWER that two Speak confidently OF THE HYPNOTIC SUBJECT. acquaintances are and authoritatively talking on the other with occasional side of the partition. He is about to reveal his emphasis in making a point clear. Talk at a presence when suddenly he realizes they are vocabulary level where every word will be talking about him. This discovery electrifies easily understood by the subject. Don't be him and he remains where he is out of sight ingratiating or patronizing or act as if you so as to hear what they have to say. At this were superior to your client. In making the point, let's consider what is about to happen. transition from the soft lullaby phase of the The eavesdropper is about to hear words, induction to the suggestion phase it is well and the subconscious mind will never forget to avoid sudden change. Step the tempo up anything that is said under these gradually. When you begin using the circumstances whether the words are fa- fractional relaxation, you'll learn the vocal vorable or unfavorable. Now, back to the patterns which are called a “lullaby eavesdropper. His name is John and he hears technique.” When you have completed the one of the acquaintances saying “well, fractional relaxation and you're ready to John's all right but ...” and the other man begin suggestions for conditioning or agrees adding, “it's too bad he has body therapeutic suggestions, the lullaby quality odor.” Millions of people have reacted to begins to diminish and your voice and such advertisements which is further manner comes up to an authoritative manner evidence that words are indeed powerful. of speaking. Let the transition be a gradual “It's too bad about John, even his best friend one. Blend your voice so that as you end the won't tell him that he has bad breath.” Now, fractional relaxation, you move into the let's imagine the words heard by John were suggestion period without a sharp line of of a different nature. Suppose the first man demarcation. Increase your volume from the had said, “John is the smartest man that I have ever met.” When the second man accomplished fact. The subconscious mind agrees then the effect will be uplifting. For is an existential mind and is always “in the weeks and even years, John will be a happier moment.” It's true that you can remember man. Those favorable words cannot be the past, and that you can imagine the future. unsaid. They will always weigh on the But, it is only in the present moment that positive side and to his advantage even if he you can experience your response to the consciously forgets them. In suggestion memory of the past or to the imagining of programming, positive and beneficial words the future. We always have to deal with our are the only ones which should be used emotional response in the present moment. because hypnosis intensifies the impression To use the present tense means that we made by each word. Each word that we hear must create a picture of the changed has energy which can affect us for good or behavior occurring now. for ill, depending on how we understand it and in what circumstances we receive it. In Since the future tense is always a New order to understand how hypnosis affects Year's resolution, we rarely follow through that energy we can compare our words to a with a consistent long term effort. radio broadcasting station which is Most of us are always planning on continually transmitting a certain amount of getting it all together in the future. We're energy. When we erect an aerial and connect expecting to do it next week, next month, it to a simple radio set we will intercept next year, and we promise ourselves we're some of the radiated energy. It will activate going to do it, “As soon as things quiet the earphone of the radio set and we will down.” “Right after the holidays.” “As soon hear a small volume of sound. This is the as my in-laws leave, I'm going to start.” equivalent of the energy of words or suggestion affecting us without hypnosis. Strangely enough, the gap between our But, when we add to the set three stages of desire and our expression of our energy in a amplification and a loud speaker, immedi- new pattern always stays at that distance, ately there is a tremendously increased because for the subconscious mind, “the volume of sound. There has been no future” never comes. increase in the input of energy - the aerial is still intercepting the same amount of energy Unrealized Expectations but the output is much greater. Hypnosis can Most of us spend our time and energy be considered as the amplifying circuit focusing on expectations that are really just which is added to a verbal therapy. Any a form of daydreaming. word that can favorably affect an individual's nervous system can be amplified A favorite one goes like this. “One of by the technique of hypnosis to produce a these days I'm really going to put it all much greater affect. together and won't it be grand! I can see it all now. I'll go to the mailbox and there will be a letter from my father. As I open it, the first RULES OF SUGGESTION thing I'll see is the stain of his dried tears up and down the paper, as he tells me how sorry RULE ONE: USE THE PRESENT he is that he said I'd never amount to TENSE anything. He'll describe how proud he is of me now that I have finally put it all together. Always state the desired result as an It's really going to be a grand day when I get Be careful to avoid reference to the past, around to it!” because when we talk about the past, we remind ourselves of behaviors that we wish When you fail to use the present tense, to change. When you say “from now on, I even your best expectations simply become will not have temper explosions toward my intentions that will never materialize. wife and children when I am angry,” you are reminding yourself of the problem. Specify Time for Action Talk about what you're going to do. “I When creating your suggestions, specify speak with love and understanding to my when they are to take effect and describe children, and they, in turn, feel good specific behavior. toward me.” As you carefully express this in Imagine an actor suffering from stage the present tense, you begin to create the fright who is anxious and apprehensive image of what you want to do and how you about his opening night, October 19. Here's want to do it. This conceptualization will how to structure the suggestions for this lead to the visualization, which will alter situation: “On October 19th, as I step onto your feelings and enable you to act the stage, I am calm and poised and relaxed. positively. I speak easily. I deliver my lines fluently. My actions are perfectly tuned and timed.” RULE TWO: BE POSITIVE Note that I'm speaking in the present tense even though I'm referring to future Create Positive Imagery behavior which will occur at a very specific Make an effort to eliminate every time. possible negative word. Here's an illustration In many cases, a progressive that you can easily remember. Bring into development must be suggested. When you your imagination the image of any animal have a chronic illness or a broken leg you that you choose except elephants. It's very certainly would not say “my leg is strong important for you not to think of elephants. and healthy” but you would say “my leg is Don't think of African elephants thundering growing stronger and healthier each day.” in great herds across the African plain. Don't Even specific suggestions for future think of Asian elephants lifting the great behavior can be given in the present tense, teak logs and carrying them to the river. for example: “Two weeks from today when I Most importantly, don't think of Indian el- am speaking to my employees, I am ephants carrying the Maharajah along the perfectly calm and relaxed and I speak easily trail. Don't even think of pink elephants. I'm and fluently” and so on. The correct way to giving you an opportunity to choose from use the present tense is to say “I am” or “I the vast selection of animals in nature. But feel” or “this is the way it is now” or “I am no elephants, please. becoming” or “my condition is changing.” The wrong way is to say “I will be,” “I will Words Create Mental Images feel.” The reason is that “will” is the Pictures which are created by the actual indeterminate future and it doesn't tell your words are never canceled by the use of subconscious mind when new action begins. negative words as modifiers. “No,” “not” It doesn't create a positive mental image. and “don't” are all neutral words as far as your subconscious in concerned. We have a what he wants. For example, “I like people. I powerful tendency to talk about what we enjoy meeting new people. I especially enjoy want to get rid of which only reinforces the meeting women. As I arrive at the party problem. tonight, and walk through the door, there's an expectant smile on my lips; a twinkle in my eye. I enjoy talking to women. I enjoy An Example of Reverse Programming dancing with a woman. I enjoy sharing a Imagine a young man who has a problem meal with a woman. Women are aware that I in his social relations with women. Another like them and they return the feeling to me.” young man, a good friend of his, calls him Practically every emotional or physical and says, “I heard about this great birthday condition can be expressed in a positive party over at Charlie's house. I've been manner. For example, when you say “I am invited and they said I could bring you not afraid” you are creating a feeling of fear along. Get ready, because there will be lots in your subconscious mind. Instead of of foxy women there tonight.” effectively counteracting the situation, you This young man is very excited about only intensify it. Express it positively by going to the party, but he's anxious about saying “I am poised, I am self-confident, I meeting new women. am courageous” etc. In fact, he has developed a pattern of We're now creating, simply but avoidance behavior. As soon as he gets to powerfully, the kind of situation that this the party he's going to have a drink or two to man is interested in experiencing instead of steady his nerves. But, he gets so “steady” painting a picture of the experience he does that no one wants to bother with him. By the not want. time he has three or four drinks and is ready to talk to a girl, he's so “loaded” that she says, “Who wants to talk to that nerd?” So, RULE THREE: BE SPECIFIC he decides that he's going to talk to himself Choose one specific area for self- before he leaves the house. He's going to use improvement and confine your suggestion to the power of self-suggestion. that one area of improvement. Do not give yourself suggestions for several problems all He says to himself, “When I go to the at the same time. You can work on more party, I'm not going to be nervous and self- than one problem by alternating your conscious. I'm not going to be frightened and suggestions, but don't hypnotize yourself to afraid.” get rid of a tension headache and then Which words do you think have the suggest that you are filled with self- greatest emotional energy for him? Of confidence, sleep perfectly every night, wear course, “frightened, afraid and self- a size 12 dress, express love to your conscious.” They have the greatest energy children, and have given up cigarettes. You because they have been part of his past should choose one area in which you wish to experience in similar situations. The very change and work on that until you feel some mention of these words triggers a fear change. Then move to your next goal. You reaction in him. may get results with your very first Instead, he should develop positive, suggestion, but be prepared to use the same creative ideas that will create an image of suggestion once a day for at least two weeks before moving on to your next goal. Of course, if during that period you have a Begin by listing these goals that you've sleepless night, hypnotize yourself and set for yourself and changes that you wish to suggest that you will pass from hypnosis effect. Then you ask, “What's the most into natural sleep, but confine that Self- important change in my life to focus on right Hypnotic session to your goal of restful now?” When you decide, give it a number sleep. one priority. Go down the list and number your goals in the order of their importance Work in a single area until you see some and significance in your emotional life. result, whether it occurs in a day or in a few months. If you've worked with a program for However, don't begin with the number thirty days and you're not getting any one priority. Instead, go down the list and measurable results, then it could be due to a develop your first suggestions for a goal number of things. It may be written incor- with lesser significance. rectly, or you may be focusing on the wrong In the beginning, think of your problem area. subconscious power as a newborn infant. It's Analyze both the physiological and the going to grow very rapidly and become very psychological needs involved in the powerful and useful to you, but in the problem. Then break the problem down into beginning it's got to be carefully nurtured. specific symptoms and reactions. Then formulate a separate suggestion for each RULE FOUR: BE DETAILED - AVOID reaction. For example, if you had a stiff or GENERALITIES sore back rather than to simply suggest and Analyze your goal and structure your say “my back is now relaxed and the suggestion to cover every detail of your stiffness is leaving,” you would begin to say changed behavior or attitude. “the muscles across the back part of my right shoulder are now beginning to relax To be detailed also means to isolate and let go and now the relaxation begins to every element of the problem and program move across the back of the left shoulder,” suggestions in that area. Here's a method etc. that can be used to help isolate these elements. Choosing a Goal A person who suffers from a fear of public speaking might create the following When you have a number of goals you negative auto-suggestions, out of their fear. want to work on, you must decide which one to start with. When one of them is situational, such as preparing for the bar Negative Programming examination and you've got to prepare for it “I'm afraid of people. I'm especially immediately, your decision is obvious. afraid when I stand to speak to an If I wanted to work on several goals and audience. I only had four weeks before taking the bar “As I begin to speak, my mouth is dry, exam, in my self-hypnosis, I would focus my lips are stiff and not fully under my exclusively on preparing for the bar control. I feel as if I'm breathing from the examination. After that's Out of the way, back of my throat. My voice isn't projecting then I would begin to deal with the next more than an inch or two past my lips. goal. “I know that everyone in the audience can see my legs quivering and shaking. “When my talk is concluded, I feel warm and gratified by the applause. I “I don't know what to do with my speak graciously and with full self- hands. I'd like to make a gesture, but I confidence to those who congratulate me know it will look like I'm just sawing the after my talk.” air. “I know I'm supposed to say something humorous, but I never have been able to RULE FIVE: BE SIMPLE tell funny stories. Speak to your subconscious as if it were “I hate speaking to an audience! Every a bright nine year old child. Avoid “literary person out there is thinking critical expression.” This is not a thesis you are thoughts about me. I look at the clock and writing for a professor to score. Avoid I see my time is almost up, and I realize I technical words and phrases or forgot two-thirds of what I meant to say. psychological and metaphysical terms. Simple words have the greatest energy. “And now the worst is yet to come, Ernest Hemmingway became famous for the because when I finish there will be those simplicity of his writing and yet it had hypocrites who feel they have to applaud. tremendous power. Finally, there are those who will congratulate me and tell me how much they enjoyed the talk. I wish they would RULE SIX: USE EXCITING AND leave me alone in my shame and EMOTIONAL WORDS mortification.” Be sure to generate excitement and feeling into your affirmations. Your Positive Programming subconscious is your feeling mind. Use words such as: Vibrant, Sparkling, Thrill- We can now create a totally positive ing, Wonderful, Powerful, Radiant, program by flopping over each sentence and Loving, Generous, Abundant, Exciting, using positive phrasing so that it comes out Delightful, Beautiful, Joyous. like this: “I like people. I enjoy speaking to RULE SEVEN: AFFIRM ACTIVITY people. I especially enjoy talking to an audience. Let your suggestion describe your action, not an ability. “As I begin speaking, my lips are flexible, my mouth is moist, my breathing Right: My Family And My Friends Co - is deep and from the diaphragm. Operate With Me Because I am Interested In Their Welfare. “My legs are strong beneath me. My hands are poised and calm. My gestures Wrong: I Have The Ability To flow spontaneously and freely. Understand Others. “There is a smile within me that comes to my lips at appropriate times. RULE EIGHT: ACCURACY “I speak easily and freely, with a full If the desired result is one which can be release of all of my knowledge and skill, for measured, such as your weight, golf or I thoroughly enjoy talking to an audience. bowling score, suggest the exact improvement you wish to achieve. Don't try following a few simple voice techniques. If to fool your subconscious by suggesting that the operator expresses confidence and you will continue to lose weight until you assurance in speaking he need not concern reach 125 pounds when your target weight is himself with pitch. 135 pounds. You may think that if you only A hypnotic trance which is induced by a have partial success you'll still reach your relaxation method can be divided into three goal, but the subconscious mind is not phases. The first phase is “the lullaby.” In fooled. Tell your subconscious exactly what talking relaxation, the hypnotist is to a great you want. extent using very material methods. The voice is deliberately made as soft as RULE NINE: BE REALISTIC possible, avoiding harsh phrases, using a tempo that is slow and monotonous or There are circumstances where it is chanting the words with a slight musical wrong to try to suggest perfection. “I always quality or simply speaking softly. The voice organize my time perfectly” is an impossible need be no louder than to be heard distinctly goal for a mother of three lively children. It by the subject. You may use a low murmur, would be difficult to visualize and could but avoid whispering. Speak naturally and only lead to frustration. “I am always soothingly. Words should be chosen for their enthusiastic” is a poor suggestion. Do you emphasis. More heavy and more drowsy is want to be enthusiastic at a funeral? more soothing than heavier and drowsier. “So sleepy” (drawn out) or “more and RULE TEN: PERSONALIZE more sleepy” is better than “sleepier.” A Structure your suggestions to change favorite phrase of many hypnotists is yourself, your attitudes, your actions. Don't “deeper and deeper” (drawn out). “Deeper suggest a change in others. As you change, and deeper in drowsy slumber.” These are others associated with you will change. liquid sounds provided you slur the p's and Wrong: My Children Always Respect don't explode them or pop them. And Obey Me. The second phase is the suggestion Right: I Take A Sincere And period. Once you've achieved relaxation and Enthusiastic Interest In My Children, trance you are now ready for the suggestion Their Activities And Their Friends And I phase. Stan at a normal pace and gradually Understand Their Point Of View. I Easily slow down and relax all of the muscles Express Love And Approval Of My moving from the toes up to the head, then Children. resume normal pace and tone. Say in a conversational tone. “Now please listen very carefully, you are now completely relaxed. USE OF THE VOICE The good and beneficial suggestions that I The chief agent in developing a hypnotic am about to give to you will make a fixed trance is the voice of the hypnotist. Whether impression on your subconscious mind.” that voice is normally high-pitched or low- Speak as a salesman would to a prospect, pitched is a minor factor. The important firmly and authoritatively with occasional thing to remember is operator can move in a emphasis when making a point. Talk at a controlled fashion through the various vocabulary level so that every word will be phases that make up the hypnotic pattern by easily understood by the subject. Avoid speaking up or down. Don't be ingratiating deeper in sleep. With each easy breath that and don't act superior. In making your you take, as you listen to the sound of my transition from the lullaby phase to the voice, you are drifting down into a calm suggestion phase, it is important to step up and relaxing peaceful sleep, just continue the tempo gradually. Increase your volume to relax even more. Go deeper and deeper from a soft murmur to a normal tone so that in sleep. Now, just go deeper in sleep until I the subject is hardly aware a change has speak to you again.” During the initial taken place. A hypnotist should speak period of hypnosis all of your suggestions authoritatively, but this can be done with a are impressing the subject with ideas of quiet self confident manner of authority. relaxing. Utter these phrases over and over... “so sleepy, drowsy and heavy, you're The third phase is the trance getting more and more drowsy with each termination. In the awakening period be word that you hear. You feel so relaxed. enthusiastic and use superlatives. Sell your You're just turning loose and letting go. All subject the idea that when his trance is of your muscles are just easing off. You are ended, he is going to be refreshed, and completely relaxed. Your muscles are loose greatly benefited by his hypnotic experience. and limp and heavy. What a pleasant Focus on selling the concept of “fully feeling to just completely relax.” aware” to the subject so as to avoid the Practice these stock phrases until you occasional refusal to come up from trance. develop the habit of saying them over and Use suggestions designed to create feelings over without thinking about them. of euphoria and well-being as the subject Remember the rules of suggestion and avoid returns to a state of “full awareness.” using negatives such as “you are not Continued practice will develop your uncomfortable.” “hypnotic patter.” A smooth face of flowing You have to decide during the lullaby suggestion is bonded together with the phase when the subject is hypnotized. There mortar of generalized stock phrases which are many other things to look for: the cast on tends to deepen the trance. Whenever you're the individual's face, as they go into puzzled about your next step or procedure, hypnosis all tension leaves and they become you can cover your indecision with these more attractive, they often look different. As stock phrases. As you utter them you gain experience you will notice subtle mechanically, you are considering the signs of hypnosis: complete relaxation, situation and your next step in an unhurried uncoordinated rolling of eyeballs. When the manner. When you have created a specific eyeballs move back and forth under the lids, suggestion, you can change from the stock it is a sign of hypnosis. Often the subject phrase to the suggestion without the subject will expel a long “hypnotic sigh” as they realizing that there was any hesitation on enter trance. You can then tell the subject he your part. This does not to mean that you is now asleep or relaxed. Continue to deepen must maintain an unbroken flow of words. the trance with suggestion and stock phrases, But, before a period of silence, be sure the such as “deeper and deeper in sleep.” You subject realizes that you have stopped can tell him you're going to count to ten and deliberately, not because you don't know on each count he is to take a deep breath and what to say next. Use these stock phrases: on ten will be deeper in sleep. Also tell him “Now just relax and go deeper in sleep. to stay hypnotized until you give him You feel so calm and peaceful as you go specific instructions for terminating the trance. following the rules, choose a word or short phrase which symbolizes the feeling and You can reassure the subject by saying “I content. Finding the correct symbol is will bring you out of hypnosis at any time extremely important. If your suggestion is that you want me to, all you have to do is for overcoming feelings of inferiority your move the little finger on your right hand and then I will know you wish me to bring you symbol might be “Dynamic Self- up. If you understand my instructions clearly Confidence” or “Poise” or “Magic just nod your head slightly.” Don't make a Johnson.” test and tell him to go ahead and move your If you are overcoming insomnia your finger. Follow these steps: symbol might be “Easy Slumber” or 1. Tell your subject “you are now being “Sleep Like A Baby” or “Summer Cabin” hypnotized.” or “Mountain Air.” 2. “You are now hypnotized.” If you want to lose weight you might use “Size 10” or “Slender And Sexy” or 3. “Your trance is deepening.” “Sweet Sixteen.” 4. “Stay asleep until I ask you to awaken.” Try to find a symbol which calls to mind 5. Make a detailed, specific suggestion a strong feeling or a vivid picture. The such as “eyelids are now locking tightly symbol doesn't have to mean a thing to closed” followed by “now try to open anyone else, it is created for you and a your eyelids and find them locking symbol which provokes a surge of feeling tighter and tighter. Now stop trying, and energy or creates a picture for you is the relax and go deeper in sleep.” symbol you should use. 6. Post-hypnotic suggestions including reinduction by post-hypnotic suggestion. Step Three: Edit the Suggestion 7. Terminating trance. Read your suggestion to insure you have used the basic rules. Then revise it, expand it 8. Testing post-hypnotic suggestion. and finally, recopy your final version.

HOW TO REACH AND AROUSE THE Step Four: Read Your Suggestion SUBCONSCIOUS MIND Aloud Here are the mechanics that make auto- Before hypnotizing yourself, carefully suggestion effective: there are six steps to read the entire suggestion to yourself aloud. follow. If you are in the presence of others and it might be embarrassing or impossible, read Step One: Write Out Your Suggestion your suggestion silently and very carefully. When you read aloud it compels the uttering Writing forces you to crystallize your of every word. In reading silently we are ideas and eliminate vague and hazy mental accustomed to scanning and skipping. When concepts. you have properly edited your suggestion, every word becomes important. Step Two: Symbolize the Suggestion After you have written your suggestion Step Five: Hypnotize Yourself Use the method of the fractional The state of hypnosis is a lowering of the relaxation. Start initially with the cassette. barriers between the conscious and After you have played it every day for at subconscious levels of the mind. The least a week you can begin doing it mentally. conscious mind is the part of your intelli- gence that connects you to the outer environment via the five physical senses. It Step Six: Think the Symbol attaches reason to everything you do. When Make no effort to remember what that you are asleep the conscious mind is inactive symbol means or to think of your original and cannot create thoughts. In hypnosis you suggestion. You have already given yourself maintain an awareness of the world around the suggestion forcefully as a pre-hypnotic you and become so relaxed and tranquil that suggestion. You have already loaded the you cease to be concerned with the external gun. When you think the symbol you're world. By developing your skill in merely pulling the trigger. Your mind works relaxation, the barriers between the different by triggering associated ideas. parts of mind are partially lowered, and the After you have thought the symbol, just subconscious mind becomes accessible. let your mind drift. Certain phrases from Therefore, the First practical step is to train your suggestion will drift into your mind, yourself to relax completely in both mind and begin to create a feeling response to the and body and withdraw from the external words. Let pictures of yourself acting in the world. You can remain aware of it yet not way you want to act, feeling the way you concerned with it. want to feel, looking the way you want to The method of fractional relaxation is look, come into your imagination. the most practical one. In fractional The reason for pre-suggestion, relaxation we begin at the toes because it symbolization and trigger release, is that as creates a feeling of dropping the body off, you go into hypnosis, your conscious, leaving the mind separate and free. The flow analytical mind slows down. If you try to of blood to the brain is reduced because remember lengthy or detailed suggestions, conscious mental activity has been reduced you are working against yourself. By using and physical activity has been eliminated. only the symbol, you release the concept When you practice, be sure to consider your with an absolute minimum of conscious surroundings because when you are in hyp- mind activity. In this way you get a greater nosis all of your senses are more acute. It is response to your suggestion. As you read the better for the room to be too warm than too suggestion before hypnotizing yourself cool. A current of air can affect your ability you're feeding it into your subconscious to go into hypnosis. Take the phone off the mind. Each time it becomes more and more hook and do not feel anxious to “get it over of a fixed pattern. with.” Clothing should be loose and comfortable. If your progress is not quick enough, after about three weeks, re-write your Should you fall asleep when hypnotizing suggestion, getting more action and feeling yourself do not be concerned. Set your words into it. Check whether you are reading mental alarm and it will soon be more exact the suggestion with feeling, and if you are than your alarm clock. Once you have getting good mental pictures of a successful learned to relax both mind and body, you solution to your problem. can give yourself a test of trance. Say to yourself “my eyelids are now pressing down third time that you say “sleep now,” you can tightly, my eyelids are pressing down and let your eyelids close down and begin to sealing shut; they are sealing so tightly relax. Then say, “each time that I take three closed that I cannot open them until I say deep breaths and say mentally “sleep now,” the words “eyes open” – in fact, the more I on or before the third time, my eyelids try to open my eyes the more tightly they're automatically close down and I go into a locking closed. Now, I try to open my eyelids deeper, more relaxing hypnotic state.” You and I find they are locking tighter and are now conditioning your subconscious tighter. All right, eyes open. Now I see mind to respond to a post-hypnotic signal to they're open, I'll just close them down again create a faster induction of self-hypnosis. Be and go deeper in sleep.” Next, you could sure the key you're using for induction is use the arm levitation test and as it begins something unusual. Some people just spell rising tell yourself “I'm going deeper into their name backward. If your name is John hypnotic sleep.” This persuades your you might say “Each time I spell out N - O - conscious mind to stop analyzing. Ignore the J my eyelids close and I go into a deeper, questions and rationalizations. After the eye sounder, more relaxing hypnotic state.” test, say “now my eyes are normal or my When in your automobile, if you feel a need arm feels normal, I could move it if I wanted for rest and relaxation, pull off the road in a to but I'm not yet ready to.” Always safe place. Turn off the key, and move out normalize any suggestions. from behind driver's position. Whenever you hypnotize yourself it is Your goal is to persuade your advisable before using your symbol to say subconscious mind to accept your chosen “each time I use this method for self- programming suggestion. For example, hypnosis, I enter into hypnotic relaxation when programming self-confidence, read faster and easier than ever before.” Also tell your suggestion aloud. Go through the yourself “each sound around me is causing relaxation process. Give yourself the me to relax even more and to go deeper.” suggestions for speeding up your induction, and the time you choose to awaken. Don't try to consciously remember the suggestions HOW TO DEVELOP YOUR you have already programmed. You will AWAKENING METHOD soon begin to see, feel, and realize that the Tell yourself, “whenever I count from I effects of these suggestions are being to 5 and say wide awake my eyelids always demonstrated in your daily life. open automatically and I am then wide Don't create anesthesia in a part of your awake feeling calm, relaxed, refreshed, body and then put a lit cigarette on it to mentally alert, invigorated, feeling good. I prove it to yourself. You are only concerned always awaken from hypnosis feeling good with proving you can be the person you want in every way.” to be. If you have traumas and painful emo- Learn to use a symbol for the induction tional experiences in your past, condition of self-hypnosis so that each time you yourself so that you can think about them hypnotize yourself you give yourself the without feeling the emotional reaction to suggestion for speedier induction. Fix your them. You don't want or need to “forget eyes on a spot on the wall or ceiling, take about it.” You want to stop reacting in a three deep breaths and each time you exhale, negative way. Make sure all of the say mentally “sleep now.” On or before the suggestions you give to your subconscious original, unique and true. My headlines are mind are sound, necessary and acceptable convincing and believable. My headlines are under any conditions. Don't increase the nor- refreshing, joyful, an emotional experience. mal sensitivity of your body. The level of They overflow with good humor, feeling, normal sensation and function of your body enthusiasm and expression. They express the is an evolution from millions of natural message the way it should be expressed experiments and only the most successful naturally, thought provokingly. They give have been able to survive. The human body the right feeling to an ad, the right mood, is the conclusion of these experiments and making it inviting and appealing to read. My represents the most outstanding achievement headlines have pull. They stimulate the of nature. emotions and activate the feelings. My mind is like a green, fertile valley, an USE OF “POWER PROGRAMMING” orderly arrangement of attractive and FOR STRUCTURING SCRIPTS exciting ideas. My ideas are golden, blue, green, red, orange and pink. They are polka In order to familiarize yourself with the dot, striped, flowery, and full of wild, imagi- use of the rules for creating effective native designs. My ideas are folksy, hip, programming, study the following exotic, down to earth and outrageous. They suggestion programming. When you are are funny, bizarre, ironic, witty and warm. ready to begin writing a program, use these Literally thousands of bright, bold, modem as models, liberally borrow words and headlines are prisoners in my mind, waiting phrases from them, and recheck your to be released when I want them. completed program against them. My writing is alive, uninhibited and full of feeling. It is flesh and blood. My Water Tap headlines are bold, different, daring, The following ideas are symbolized by uniquely on target. I see life naturally and the phrase “Water Tap.” simply like a child, and I express myself I am a very creative person. My mind is naturally, gracefully and clearly. clear and serene, a healthy, orderly, fertile I am full of love for all things. I am a garden where ideas take root and develop. very lovable person. I give love freely and Ideas come easily to me, effortlessly. They accept it freely. I love to express myself are always there when I want them. I turn through writing. I know I write well. I am myself on, and out they flow, calmly, enthusiastic, full of energy and serenely, obediently. These ideas charm and concentration. It's so easy for me to write please me; they are the ideas I want. They outstanding headlines. It's natural because I are ideas that bring a smile to my lips, a am talented, creative and fertile. I write well sense of well being in my mind, that give my and I know it. I have faith in myself and in body energy and animation. my writing. I am at my peak. I write better When I sit down to write, I see the heart now, and have more and better ideas than of the message in an instant. All I have to do ever before. I love my job because I do it so is put it down on paper. Vivid, exciting well. I belong at the top because I have the words crystallize in my mind that express talent and the drive to be there. I am second my feelings with imagination, emotion and to none when it comes to inventive, enthusiasm. The way I express myself is imaginative advertising. I am a damned good advertising executive! conscious minds. And success is mind! So All of these ideas are symbolized by the be it! phrase “Water Tap.” All of these ideas are symbolized by the Random Access phrase “Random Access.” The following ideas are symbolized by the phrase “Random Access.” Joyful Mind My subconscious mind is a perfect The following ideas are symbolized by memory core. It retains everything that I the phrase “Joyful Mind.” wish it to retain. It is the sum total of all I I love to study. have studied, experienced, felt - and it continues to be so. When I study something - whether it be a well worn text book or a daily newspaper - a I have complete confidence that I can treasured picture of a girl friend back home retrieve instantly any information stored in or the twinkling eyes of a young co-ed; a my subconscious mind. It happily, readily green long stemmed plant or a small, smooth and eagerly supplies the information. If I stone - I am cheerfully energetic, yet relaxed want historical information, I need but and poised, taking in all that I focus upon. silently visualize or state the country or epoch and the data is mine. The same is true I find pleasure and beauty in my growing for mathematics, geography, literature, world. Studying is a clue for my entire body management subjects - in fact, any subject to joyfully relax and my mind to perk up. It that I have studied. is easy for me to study for long periods of time, because I passionately love to learn I revel in the power, meaning and about my growing world. significance of this random access to my subconscious memory. I delight in it! I take Printed words cause me to integrate my care that what enters my subconscious is as experiences with those ideas presented. noble, beautiful and good as I can possibly Indeed, all my activities are easily adapted in make it: useful facts, inspiring literature, the my mind, making me more aware of my wisdom of great minds. environment and making me more alive in my environment. I understand ideas the first Every time I use my talent of random time I encounter them - and this natural access, the response is instantaneous! I understanding keeps me far ahead of what is exude a quiet optimism in my affairs, for I expected of me and my general age group. know positively that I have all the requisite information necessary to solve the problem. Because I am always aware of the goal I continually grow in my capacity to absorb of my studying, I have continual success at and use good information; I quickly filter my every learning experience. Studying is out and reject the rest. My speech reflects for me the means to see, to hear, to talk, to positive storage in my subconscious mind. think, to feel, and to participate with the And this storage is unlimited. People object before me. consider me a mental giant because of my I love to study; it is successfully retention, recall, scope of interest, and vast rewarding, and the objects are pleasurable ocean of knowledge. I use this information and beautiful for me. When I have decided wisely and for good. I glow with joy over the to end my study period, my every muscle is splendid teamwork of my subconscious and relaxed, my thoughts are clear, and I am All of these ideas are symbolized by the prepared to go on to desired sleep, or to phrase “Olympic Games.” whatever is to be done. All of these ideas are symbolized by the Symbolize the Suggestion phrase “Joyful Mind.” If you must create a word or phrase to symbolize the suggestion, then begin like Olympic Games this: The following ideas are symbolized by The following ideas are symbolized by the phrase “Olympic Games.” the name “(fill in with word or phrase I love to exercise. I enjoy exercise. It is suggested).” exhilarating, and I look forward to In my capacity as supervisor I give clear, exercising each day. I do my exercises each thorough instructions to others regarding the day, and I feel a sense of accomplishment jobs that are to be done. My instructions are when I exercise. I experience a boundless completely and perfectly understood because sense of joy when I exercise - and it comes they are clearly and pleasantly defined, and easy to me. My muscles become stronger create a feeling of good will and a desire to each day. I feel energy surging through my do an excellent job. Since I always set a body as I exercise. All my muscles work good example and am fair and thoughtful in together; and with each daily exercise, I am my dealings with others, I receive a great more confident in the strength I receive deal of respect and warmth from them. I Each day I am able to perform more return their warmth, and they feel as I do exercises. I use every muscle, and each fibre that I am an extremely lovable person. becomes stronger. Each day exercising is I communicate with case effectively and easier, and I can do more. I exercise each energetically at all times: with family, opportunity I have and feel vibrant strength friends, my supervisors and business as I do. I exercise my legs, arms, shoulders, associates. My mind - always aware of what stomach and back. I use every muscle - and is going on around me - quickly and cleverly each time I enjoy it more. Running, lifting, supplies a solution or reply to all problems, walking becomes easier and more enjoyable questions, situations, and I deliver the each day. I am healthier each day. information in a logically interesting and, Exercising gives me unlimited exaltation where appropriate, witty manner. People as each exercise becomes easier and the seek my opinion on subjects of all natures; more confident I am. I move easily, and all and when I have given my enlightening my muscles work toward the goals of reply, they are pleased and happy they asked physical strength and coordination. Each me. I have a great talent for expressing my muscle responds to my command. Each day thoughts and ideas vividly with an more vitality surges through my body. I enthusiasm that favorably impresses easily think of new ways to exercise. I easily everyone with whom I come in contact. do sit-ups, leg-raises, bends and stretches. I have a pleasing, sparkling and I delight in using my muscles. I feel alert charming personality; and my voice is and relaxed and exercising gives me great pleasant to listen to. People are eager to hear pleasure. what I have to say, not only because of my delightfully poised speaking manner, but also because what I say makes sense to singing for him or her alone. They feel my them, is logical, and leaves a favorable generous love flowing out to them, and I feel feeling with the person listening. a vast abundant wave of love flowing back to me from them. I am singing my song to All of these ideas are symbolized by the my audience because I know that they care name “(fill in with word or phrase about the story I am telling them. They care suggested).” when I am happy and they are happy for me. When I want to cry, they want to cry, too. Deep Flowing Spring When my heart breaks, their hearts break The following ideas are, symbolized by with mine. When I am exultant, they rejoice the phrase “Deep Flowing Spring.” with me. We are in love with each other. I am a loveable person, and I am in love with I love to sing. When I sing, I feel a all mankind. pulsating flow of emotion like the waters of a gushing spring flowing forth from deep Success comes to me because I am within the earth. Each song is a complete deserving of success. Prosperity and riches exciting drama to be acted out with profound come to me in abundance. The treasures of interpretation. When the words denote the universe were created for me, and I gaiety, I feel the happy laughter bubbling to accept them with joy and gratitude. the surface, expressed in my smiling lips and All of these ideas are symbolized by the laughing eyes. When the words are tearful phrase “Deep Flowing Spring.” and full of heartbreak, my voice wails with pent up tears and moans with sadness. Every phrase, every word is full of meaning. All BASIC RULES FOR THE my heritage comes forth to help transmit the HYPNOTIST vibrant and thrilling drama to my rapt To remember in your study and practice audience held spellbound by my exciting as a hypnotist. Some of the most important performance - the powerful, stirring soul of ones to follow are: my black blood, the ritualism and nobility of my Indian ancestry, the perpetual tragedy of 1. Learn your subject thoroughly. The the Jew, and the control and classical proper study of hypnotism is a lifetime benefits from my white strains. I am a study. The greater your interest, the melting pot of many cultures, and the best of greater your desire to become highly all worlds come forth to find expression in proficient, the more there is to study and my beautiful voice. learn. When I sing my breathing is deep and 2. Let your manner, your words, your steady from the diaphragm; my tones are movement and your voice show self- rich chest tones placed just behind my lower confidence. teeth. My lower jaw is loose, my throat 3. The beginner must always avoid giving relaxed, my mouth is moist, my hands are the impression he is a beginner. dry, my legs are steady. The words to my songs are forever etched upon my brain and 4. Remove all fear of hypnotism harbored come readily to my lips. by the subject as well as all misconceptions. My audience listens intently to my every word because each one knows that I am 5. Cultivate a soothing manner in voice and create a feeling of trust and confidence in the subject. 6. Never show excitement or uncertainty in anything your subject does and never change your voice perceptively as would be done if you were excited because the subject will respond to only one voice and cannot reason under hypnosis. 7. For your first subject, try to select a person who has been previously hypnotized if at all possible. Otherwise, select a very cooperative person. When giving performances before an audience, try to hypnotize a subject before appearing before the audience. Give the subject the hypnotic suggestion for your post-hypnotic reinduction. After you gain some experience this will no longer be necessary. 8. Realize that there is a small percentage of people, about five percent, that will not enter hypnosis at any given time or with any given hypnotist. 9. Always remember that whatever any other hypnotist can do, you can do once you have developed the experience, the background, the knowledge and the understanding that the other hypnotists may have. UNDERSTANDING HYPNOSIS AND HYPNOTHERAPY

HYPNOSIS DEFINED factor of the conscious mind and reaches the subconscious it is often substantially Hypnosis is a natural state of mind with changed in intensity and content. As the con- special identifying characteristics as follows: scious mind diminishes, the subconscious 1. An extraordinary quality of mental, mind comes forward. Consciousness never physical and emotional relaxation. disappears in hypnosis and hypnosis is never 2. An emotionalized desire to satisfy the equated with unconsciousness. When the suggested behavior: the subject feels like deeper states of trance are induced, the following the hypnotist's instructions, conscious mind relaxes, agreeably directions and suggestions, except those relinquishes control and stands aside as an that generate conflict with the subject's onlooker and can intervene whenever values, i.e., character attitudes, religious necessary. beliefs and moral principles. 3. The organism becomes self-regulating as HYPNOTHERAPY DEFINED the trance produces normalization of the Hypnotherapy is a form of therapy central nervous system. combining trance induction of hypnosis with 4. Heightened and selective sensitivity to individualized techniques of counseling stimuli perceived by the five physical secured by each Hypnotherapist uniquely. senses and the basic perceptions. Therefore, Hypnotherapy cannot be confined within a detailed description. Every 5. Immediate softening of psychic defenses. Hypnotherapist has specialized tools, 6. Lack of response to irrelevant, external techniques and background specifically stimuli. directed to the counseling field. Hypnotherapy encompasses a holistic Because hypnosis is a natural state of approach to health and healing and the total mind, it can occur spontaneously and it is person's wellbeing. Hypnotherapy is a not an artificially induced state. One major dramatic rapid intervention system which theory is that electrobiochemical changes reshapes the client's feelings of competence take place in the nervous system as a result and capability. Within the sessions of of the brain being stimulated by words and hypnotherapy, one may discover hidden images. memories, latent creativity, new insights, As an idea reaches the mind through the feelings of competence, release of fears or five physical senses it is first processed by touch a deep emotion. the conscious mind and this analyzing part In Hypnotherapy one can come to the of the mind can change, weaken, or inhibit realization that we are responsible for our the incoming suggestion. Our education, own realities and can choose to change or re- prejudices and misinformation can alter in- create our perceptions and beliefs to create a coming suggestions. By the time the reality by choice, not mere acceptance of suggestion is filtered through this critical what we believe we must accept. This “con- sciousness of self” or awakening of awareness is one of the highest rewards of NATURE OF HYPNOSIS Hypnotherapy. Every person can develop a natural state The Gil Boyne system of of awareness called hypnosis or trance. “Transforming Therapy” is a process of Hypnosis is a normal experience, which reaching, touching and accepting the inner anyone can have, in the right circumstances child by releasing blockages and recreating and with the right hypnotist. Unlike ordinary past emotional trauma to transform the cre- conscious awareness, which involves a ative vital force within the adult through constantly shifting focus of attention, the hypnotic reeducation. hypnotic state of mind involves a focusing of internal attention and an elimination of Through the use of Hypnotherapy and external distractions. we can create a positive present by recreating the past. Our In hypnosis the subject is neither present experiences are influenced by past unconsciousness nor asleep - it is a special memories contained in our subconscious state of awareness in which there is a mind. When we change the emotional heightened receptiveness to ideas and under- remembrance of these events, we also standings and an increased willingness to change our current attitudes, beliefs and respond either positively or negatively to motivations toward our present reality. those ideas. We can manifest a creative and The field of focused conscious successful present and future by re- awareness narrows, and external stimuli, programming the past stored in our other than those given by the hypnotist, lose subconscious minds. As a child we could not their significance. In effect, the subject choose the belief structure or conditioning reduces contact with the external world we received from our parents, peers and except for the relationship with the environment. As adults, we can re-program hypnotist. As subjects give up their focus on or re-write our past scripts and the roles external stimuli and begin to focus on their being played in the present. Re-creation is a internal world, they become less dependent dynamic therapy process which works upon their external reality to provide simply and gently to help one manifest a meaning and structure to their perceptions limitless future. and responses. Transformation literally means to Reality for the subject and what happens transform or restructure. It is a process of within that reality is defined internally and change in which the higher levels of unity not by external events or circumstances. and Divine Love are integrated into one's Hypnotized subjects enters a world in which personality and consciousness. Through the ordinary rules and events of reality are process of Transformation, divisions replaced by internally based ones. between mind and heart are healed and the The subconscious mind perceives, thinks inner duality of masculine and feminine and responds to the world in a literal fashion natures are reunited. Transformative ex- unimpaired by the biases of the conscious perience reflects light on the soul, and mind. It sees things the conscious mind guides one to a new knowing of the ignores, it knows things the conscious mind “Center.” has forgotten. It often influences the thoughts, educated guesses, dream “real” hypnotic experiences for the subjects. experiences, and emotional responses. Past events may be relived, current events Although childlike in many respects, it ac- may be perceived and thought about in a tually is wiser and more perceptive than the totally new manner, and all sensations and conscious mind. It contains a vast range of perceptions may be amplified, reduced, unrecognized capabilities and potentials, eliminated or replaced by an awareness of some of which are used in an unnoticed those derived entirely from internal events. It fashion on a daily basis. In addition, the is out of the use of these understandings and subconscious is a universal attribute. No memories in the mind that hypnotic subjects matter how different people are in their develop their behavior. conscious realms of existence, they remain The development of the trance state is a linked by the qualities and capacities of their psychic phenomenon, and the ability and subconscious minds. activity of the hypnotist can create a highly The subconscious knows no ethnic or favorable setting in which to instruct clients cultural boundaries; it speaks in a literal in a more creative use of their own manner and uses a form of thought that potentials. The Hypnotherapist offers understands the subconscious of another instruction and direction to the client and much more effectively than could the con- elicits information and feelings that expedite scious mind of either person. The the therapy. subconscious mind is a creative intelligence When the Hypnotherapist maintains an and is the doorway to our spiritual nature. attitude of positive expectancy, he places the responsibility for all developments entirely TRANCE: KEY TO THE MIND upon the subject. Every person has abilities not known to the self; abilities that can be discovered in FLEXIBILITY trance. Memories, thoughts and feelings can Inductions and therapy methods used can be completely or partially forgotten by the be tailored to fit the needs and expectations conscious mind; and yet they are available to of the subject. The subject defines the most the subconscious and can be experienced effective hypnotic procedures. Hypnotists within trance when the client is ready for must be observant and flexible enough to changed feelings and behavior. adapt their style and their role to those needs Through the process of age regression and attitudes. and revivification the subject can call upon Techniques cannot be followed rigidly past experiences and learnings to experience with good success since, in hypnosis, the and utilize changes. personality needs of the individual subject A memory or an imagined event, can be must be met, rather than merely inducing a experienced so vividly that it seems real. trance and giving suggestions. This process is responsible for most of the Successful use of hypnosis is not phenomena which can be produced in expectations, patter, verbiage, hope or desire hypnosis and it is important for the hypnotist of either the subject or the therapist. The to be able to influence it. The hypnotist can proper use of hypnosis is in the development guide awareness in specific ways to create of an environment reflecting the subject's internal events which can be revived into own learnings, understandings and experiences. Always be aware of how “organ language” is related to symptom formation When trances are developed, they are the and response to “subconscious scripts.” result of ideas, mental concepts and understandings already existing and aroused CREATING RESPONSE within the subjects by the Hypnotherapist. The first question students ask is, “What Many hypnotherapists regard their activities exactly do you say to induce hypnosis?” and their intentions as the affective forces; There is no single or best thing to say; there and believe that their utterances to the is no universal script. They will be nervous, subject initiate specific responses. They fail awkward, and somewhat ineffectual at first, to realize that what they say or do only but given the right background and feedback serves to arouse in the subjects past during a series of practice sessions they will learnings and understandings, consciously eventually begin to master the process. and subconsciously acquired. In hypnosis you want your client to The hypnotist creates an appropriate respond to a series of ideas. It is your atmosphere, guides attention in particular responsibility to learn how to speak to the directions and offers stimuli in order to elicit client, how to keep his attention, and how to specific responses. stimulate the acceptance of an idea that fits into his desire for change. The induction procedure provides a ritual in a setting in which hypnosis Subjects may need to be reassured that develops; it offers distractions to hold the they can continue to pay attention to the attention of the subject while hypnosis things happening around them but that there occurs. is no need to try to make the effort to do so for the time being. Their diminished contact Never talk down to, or over the head of with the external world may create a certain the client and always structure the anxiety and cause an effort to re-establish relationship as person-to-person not as reality contact unless they are reassured. It is doctor-to-patient. Clients enter the therapy the prior creation of an atmosphere of trust setting with mixed emotions and conflicting and cooperation that facilitates the client's desires. They desire help and guidance, but surrender, it should be the first step in the they are afraid to do what they know they induction ritual. must do. They may want nothing more than to have the therapist understand the situation Most hypnotists do not know that as the perfectly, and yet they may do a great deal to subject closes the eyes, he is cutting off the hide their real problems or thoughts from the visual field and is really losing something therapist. Clients are people who have an and he doesn't know what he is losing. He injury: a painful, uncomfortable or thinks he is just closing his eyes. embarrassing area of life. For one reason or An internal sensation, thought, memory another they have not been able to face these or mental image can capture and hold our injuries and handicaps directly, which is why attention for a time and the events of the they have developed problems. The major surrounding world fade from awareness. purpose of developing a therapeutic Hypnosis is induced by using this natural relationship quickly is to help the client feel mental process. The hypnotist should be able to reveal and discuss their problems as interested in helping the subject become rapidly as possible. focused upon an internal event of some sort; whether a physical sensation, a memory, an While giving suggestions for trance emotion, or an internal image. induction and trance maintenance, therapeutic suggestions can be interspersed. Arm levitation suggestions are often given as the first step to gain active The hypnotist should maintain an participation. Once an ideomotor response is attitude of unshaken and contagious made, it can be utilized immediately by confidence in the subject's ability to enter pyramiding further suggestions. the trance. As subjects observe the induction of another subject, the suggestions and EFFECTIVE VS. RATIONAL responses they are observing will initiate an Inexperienced subjects simply do not automatic tendency to undergo similar know what to do but can easily learn to go internal responses. The induction of a trance into a trance state by being told how to in the group situation accelerates the simulate hypnosis. (See “Rehearsal response and creates a more rapid training of Technique,”) the individual subject. This is especially true when a highly responsive subject is used as a The efforts to maintain one's image as a lesson for the group. rational, reasonable professional are understandable, but self-defeating. The less understanding subjects have regarding the TRAINING THE SUBJECT rationale for certain hypnotic procedures, the The subject can be trained by being more responsive they will be to them. There hypnotized, awakened, re-hypnotized, and is nothing more difficult than trying to help a reawakened repeatedly. Each of the trance knowledgeable subject experience an and waking states employed will create by hypnotic response. What occurs is an degrees an awareness of control over mental intellectual analysis of the hypnotist's style faculties. The continued responses will instead of an automatic, unthinking response increase the degree of dissociation between to it. consciousness and sub-consciousness, and Whenever you do the unexpected you establish a dissociated hypnotic personality. jog a person out of their setting. Awakening and putting a client back into trance repeatedly is also a way of deepening They simply do not like to be confused. trance. It is an absence of understanding that leaves them open. When a clear-cut, Single hypnotic sessions are to be definitive, easily grasped and understood avoided because anyone who has a second statement is uttered, the confused subject trance can have a third, a fourth, a fifth, and seizes upon it. Since they don't know what to these repeated experiences develop the do, the therapist can tell them what to do. thought, “I can have a trance anytime I wish.” Use a direct authoritative suggestion where you see a client in an uncertain state. A total of twenty minutes of initial When she is uncertain, you help her by induction training is sufficient. Since trance taking over firmly. That is acceptable as help induction is one process and trance since clients have a long history of having utilization is another, time must be allotted accepted help in such circumstances. for the subject to assimilate, learn and to respond to the Re-education process. When you have sufficiently prepared the subject, by exciting the imagination to otherwise tend to overlook or distort. develop mental expectancy, you can induce Hypnosis allows the business of therapy to a trance in a few seconds. progress more efficiently toward the final goal of objective perception, acceptance and competence within a reality which BENEFITS OF HYPNOSIS previously had caused problems or Usually, hypnotic questioning serves to symptoms. elicit the information more readily than can be done in the waking state, but the entire They can meet their problems directly in process depends on the development of a the trance state and can be encouraged to good client-therapist relationship rather than discover new or more competent ways to upon hypnotic technique, and the hypnosis is cope with them. Experiences can be created essentially a means by which the client can which encourage or demand a therapeutic give the information in a comfortable response and communications can be offered manner. which achieve an alteration in understanding and behavior. Hypnotherapy generates effective learnings that would not be possible except In hypnotherapy the client can learn to by prolonged effort in non-hypnotic look at things that are unpleasant - without therapies. fear, with a willingness to understand, and with a willingness to cope in new ways. Successful hypnotherapy should be systematically directed to a re-education of Re-education through hypnotherapy is a clients, and the stimulation of their strongest complex restructuring of subjective desires to reorganize themselves to the experiences that can be initiated very simply realities of life and their ability to cope with and then gently guided toward a therapeutic the problems confronting them. goal. Essential elements are: clinical atten- tiveness to the client's behavior, a confident Hypnosis cannot create new abilities awareness that one can delay, even halt, and within a person, but it can assist in a greater nullify hypnotically whatever is taking place, and better utilization of abilities already and postpone, modify or reinforce the possessed, even if these abilities were not structured situation leading to a therapeutic previously recognized, and trance is used for goal. the client to discover he can do things. Then, as a result of some tangible Hypnosis allows freedom and ease in performance, the client develops a profound structuring the therapeutic situation and feeling that the repressive barriers have been renders the client's feelings much more broken, that the communication is actually accessible. understandable, and that its meaning can no In a hypnotic state the client gains a longer be kept at a symbolic level. more acute awareness of his needs and It can enable clients to team to trust, to capabilities. He can be freed from mistaken communicate with, and to use that vast beliefs, false assumptions, self-doubts and range of hidden resources stored within their fears which stand in the way of his fullest own subconscious minds. The most participation in life. important thing a Hypnotherapist can teach Hypnosis enables clients to learn from the client during the pre-induction, experienced events which they would induction, therapy and programming phases is that they can trust their subconscious mind Never give the client the impression that completely and rely upon it fully. you are a “detective” searching for clues, instead, give them the impression that they The trance offers both client and are always sharing in the responsibility for therapist a ready access to the client's the success of the work. Rely on the client's subconscious mind. It permits a direct own thinking and intelligence to make the dealing with those individual life proper interpretation of the problem when he experiences which are significant to the becomes ready for that realization and ready problems and which must be processed if for change. creative results are to be achieved. Hypnosis gives prompt and extensive access to the Too many hypnotherapists try to recover subconscious. the total experience all at once. Stan the process of change and it continues! Once change is underway and is recognized by the MOTIVATION client, he may temporarily regress, but Therapists should do whatever is cannot return to the original point of necessary to motivate clients. The therapist unknowing. can serve as a source of comfort, hope, Because you are dealing with a person confidence, or inspiration as well as the who has both a conscious mind and a source of frustration, discomfort, anger and subconscious mind, achieving good results fear. They can provide whatever it takes to with a client in a deep trance does not mean initiate therapeutic movement. They create a that the client will benefit from it in the therapeutic setting within which clients will ordinary waking state. There has to be an be motivated and confident enough to do the integration of subconscious learnings with things that will help them to discover the conscious awareness. In dealing with clients kind of thought and behavior that fits their it is always necessary to decide how rapidly unique circumstances. The most important and how thoroughly they will need to thing that a therapist can do is create a integrate what they learn subconsciously. “healing environment.” This will motivate the clients to undergo the restructuring of (Spoken to the client.) events that allows them to apply their newly “Now, all of the things I've said to you acquired learnings efficiently within a more will come back changed into your own creative view of themselves and their ways of understanding. And, in the future, relationships. You don't always need to you will discover sudden insights, sudden know what the problem is in order to understanding, a sudden thought that you achieve a therapeutic closure. When you talk hadn't thought of before. It will be your strongly to the client you give them an subconscious mind, bringing to your inspiration. They believe they can do things. conscious mind things that you already State it simply and believe what you are knew, but you didn't know that you knew.” saying. You can motivate a despairing client to do things when you convey an understanding and sincere belief that they REVIVING EMOTIONAL CONTENT can use their power for change. Revivification is the recollection of an event with such clarity, intensity and detail INTERPRETING THE PROBLEM that it becomes an experience of seemingly reliving the original event. This intense reorientation into the past is possible with even though it's a delusion and irrational, hypnosis and can be remarkably useful and it is “emotional reasoning” that prevails therapeutically. Displacement in time and in daily life, not exercises in logic. We space and re-immersion into the past spend our lives doing what we “feel like provides opportunity for the client to doing.” discover things, more constructively to the The therapist can split off the intellectual experience than they did originally. It can be aspects of a problem for a client and leave used to resurrect old, more effective patterns only the emotional aspects to be dealt with. of response or to remind clients of positive One can have a client cry out very intensely aspects of their past. It can focus their over the emotional aspects of a revived awareness upon events that were experience. Or, one can do it in a piecemeal misunderstood initially, especially when that fashion that is, let him recover a portion of misunderstanding has led to problems in the the intellectual content of the experience of present. Stimulating an awareness of the the past, then a portion of the emotional source of existing attitudes or reactions can content - and these different aspects need not enable the person to gain a more useful necessarily be immediately connected. perspective on the present. Within hypnosis it is even possible to alter the subjective Usually it's best to have clients experience of time in such a manner that experience the emotional first and later the clients can re-experience practically their intellectual, because after they have entire lives in the span of twenty minutes. experienced the emotions so strongly, they Such an all-encompassing review may have a need to integrate the intellectual provide immeasurable leaps in objective mind. self-understanding and self-appraisal. Hypnosis gives the client an opportunity PRAISING AND GIVING CREDIT to dissociate himself from his problems and Always praise your subjects and thank to take an objective view of himself. He can them for their participation. Do this before, make an inventory of his assets and abilities, during and after a trance episode. Such and then, one by one, deal with his problems comments can relax potential subjects, instead of being overwhelmed by all of them provide support to hypnotized subjects and and being unable to think clearly in any confirm the value of the trance to subjects direction. emerging from the experience. Even if The dissociation of intellectual content nothing of particular significance has from emotional significance can create an happened during the trance, you want to understanding of the meaningfulness of avoid discouragement. If something both. Hypnosis permits such dissociation important has been learned, you do not want when needed, as well as correction of it. conscious skepticism to undo it. Point out to a client that it is perfectly The purpose in having them describe the possible to remember the intellectual facts of sensations is to confirm trance. Always give something but not the emotional content, praise to the subconscious and give credit and vice versa. wherever you can. There is a vast difference between We can reinforce the value of the thinking and feeling: thinking can be valid experience by speaking well of it to the but it's limited; a feeling can be anything client even though we do not know exactly how long the client will need to digest the make use of it. new material. It could be a day or a week or When a client comes into your office and longer. need hypnotherapy, you've got to rely upon your past experience and your past LEARNING TO BE EFFECTIVE understandings. The most important thing is that you do have a body of experience, and a The field of hypnosis is open to any body of learning which you can utilize. person willing to qualify by interest, study and experience, and the intelligent use of You go into self-hypnosis to achieve hypnosis depends essentially upon a certain things or acquire certain knowledge. background and foundation of personal Do not try to solve client problems ahead of interest and specialized training. time because as surely as you make a conscious decision in advance, you start to Learning to be an effective improve on it and ruin it. Hypnotherapist does not mean learning the technique to use with everyone. Every client When you have any doubt about your requires an unique approach. Imitation of capacity to see the important things, go into anyone, or the recitation of a memorized a trance. When there is a crucial issue with a patter is not the road to success. Every client and you don't want to miss any of the Hypnotherapist must develop a personal clues, go into a trance. style that is comfortable and flexible enough Self-hypnosis is often a sterile procedure to be modified by each client's unique needs because of misconceptions of its nature and and learnings. use. Usually the self-hypnotist tries too hard Never assume that the subject's to direct consciously the activities he wishes understanding of instructions is identical to take place at the hypnotic level of with yours. awareness, and inhibits the effort. Use the client's own words and experience as much as possible for trance HOW TO PRACTICE induction and programming. HYPNOTHERAPY Study and learn hypnosis so well that no The goal of the Hypnotherapist is to help matter what develops in any situation you clients to alter their perceptions realistically, can think of something; you can devise so that they can use their potentials something that will meet your client's needs. effectively to change self-limiting, delusional and self-defeating patterns of Intellectual book knowledge about thought and behavior. hypnosis won't do it, nor will reading books about hypnosis/ hypnotherapy without There is no easy way to become an highly competent training and practical effective Hypnotherapist. There is no single experience. theory to memorize and apply with every client; there is no list of particular skills to Long experience has disclosed that the master that can be used in every situation; easiest and quickest way to learn to induce a there is no mystical alteration in trance is to be hypnotized first, thus to learn consciousness that will provide universal the “feel” of it. Anybody who has been truth overnight. Effective hypnotherapy is hypnotized can employ it to hypnotize not just special techniques such as voice others, given cooperation and the patience to inflections, word games, metaphors or Emotions are not logical, rational or anecdotes. It is a total commitment to being conscious, but they are a natural and useful a Hypnotherapist in all aspects of life and form of subconscious communication. They not just a feeble attempt to act like one tell us how we feel about something even during office hours. It is the painstaking when we are consciously unaware of how accumulation of detailed and accurate we feel. The subconscious is the feeling observations and related skills. It is the mind, and emotional reactions are not willingness to participate in the necessarily rational when they are from the hypnotherapeutic process oneself and to subconscious reactive level. The feeling is learn from direct personal experience as a always the essential thing; not knowing that hypnotic subject what hypnotherapy is all you have the feeling or whether it is the about and what the tool of hypnosis can “right feeling.” The rational approach is accomplish. right for most intellectual functions, but for total human functioning it is not useful since much of our behavior is based on irrational PUTTING ASIDE CHILDISH THINGS feelings. We must always make allowances Children define the world and their for our human weakness and irrationality. experiences in a much different way than the adult, and their interpretations of their experiences are limited by their lack of TWO KINDS OF THINKING inductive reasoning and are vastly different The conscious mind can think one way from those of the adult. Early conditioning and the subconscious another. Your can serve to establish, and to fix within us, subconscious mind can develop a train of unhealthy and unsatisfying ways of behaving thought, without your conscious knowledge so that we become progressively more and reach conclusions, and then let your handicapped in our ability to fill our deeper conscious mind become aware of the needs. People who accomplish a great many conclusions. The subconscious perception of things are people who have freed themselves reality is direct, unbiased and literal. It from negative childhood perceptions. simply perceives, processes and reacts to whatever is. Its perceptions, understandings and responses are like those of a child who OUR VIEW OF “REALITY” has yet to learn the rules, judgments and We build up an unlimited number of biases of an adult. The behavior styles of the biases which become part of our view of the child represent the basic character of an world. The word “bias” actually means a adult's subconscious. When you have a viewpoint, a shaping of perception. client in trance, the client thinks like a child The subconscious is smarter, wiser and and reaches for an understanding in an open quicker than the conscious mind. It has and childlike manner. access to more information but on some occasions it can and does arrive at erroneous SUBCONSCIOUS STOREHOUSE or illogical conclusions, because it reasons Because the subconscious mind is a vast deductively or from “effect back to cause” storehouse of unrecognized, unused and and because it is the “feeling mind.” misused memories and learnings, it prefers to work outside of the conscious awareness REASON VS. EMOTION and knowledge. You cannot keep consciously in mind all the things you know, change must occur within the client. Change considering all the learning you have cannot be forced upon clients and clients acquired in a lifetime. cannot be expected to change in ways that are inappropriate to their needs or foreign to However, when the appropriate time their backgrounds. Therapists must keep the comes to respond with a certain kind of burden of responsibility for change on the behavior you can do so. You do not have to shoulders of their clients. Since people can be consciously aware that you already have do any number of things against themselves learned that behavior. Most people do not and use very intelligent ways to defeat or know of their total capacities for response destroy themselves, you need to understand and they place mystical meanings on the that if a person can destroy the self information they get by subtle cues. intelligently then they can also redirect their energies to build themselves up creatively. HOW CHANGE OCCURS Stimulating therapeutic change actually There are many alternatives in every involves the application of some mechanical situation, yet the neurotic believes “it's got skills. They are admittedly complex skills to be this or that”! Reacting to the good and requiring an extensive background the bad in life, and dealing with it creatively, specialized of training and experience, but is the real joy in life. “Deal with what therapy really amounts to pushing the emerges” is always the primary rule. emotional, intellectual and spiritual buttons Providing the client with alternatives sets the that will cause the desired therapeutic stage for inner search and creative problem- reactions and learnings. The strategies and solving and the awareness that they can techniques employed by the therapist should cope. be genuine expressions of professional When clients discover something new, concern and not mere rote imitation or they can never function again in the old way; mechanical reproduction. their world is permanently changed. Therapy Intellectual insight into the past can be is often a matter of the correction of one somewhat educational. But insight never behavior and when that first change occurs changes the past and rarely triggers continuing change usually results. When the therapeutic change. Therapy is oriented to wrongly directed energy is liberated and the client living today, next week, next year. channeled in a new, creative direction, the The induction and maintenance of a client can begin the healing process. trance provides a special psychic state in The most important thing in therapy is which the client can begin to reorganize his to break up the client's rigid and limiting inner awareness and utilize his own mental sets. The client comes to you with a capacities. Therapy is accomplished when certain mental set and they expect you to get clients have an experience which triggers a into that set. If you surprise them, they let reorganization of previous understandings loose of their mental set and you can frame and responses. This can correct previously another mental set for them. held false ideas or misperceptions, or lift a The therapist can create conditions rigid restriction, or present the truth to the conducive to change, can attempt to client in a new way. It is the client's motivate the client to change and can even experience of reorganizing his own internal provide a change-inducing experience, but perceptions that stimulates change. We can help by presenting creative ideas and post- and unfortunate past actions. The respectful hypnotic suggestions in a way that therapist senses the potential in each stimulates imagery and feeling and relates to individual for growth and will not be the present as well as the future. It is this imprisoned by prejudice. Whether dealing experience that can lead to a cure. with an alcoholic, a person with a long history of delinquency, or one who has In hypnotherapy, always work for the sexual and moral attitudes grossly different clients' action and response instead of from the therapist, the therapist can focusing on theories and concepts. Focus on transcend these factors and relate to the creative responses of actions and change, not inner worth, potential and strength in his the consideration of the possibility of clients. change, work to develop an expectancy for change! The second component of therapist respect is appreciating the client's right to Give verbal examples and brief case choose - to feel, to suffer, to make mistakes, histories so that clients can find one that etc. High-functioning therapists regard as actually helps to alter their behavior. Study sacred the client's free will. Therapists will your clients for evidence that they are not overprotect or try to dominate or accepting what you say. It is not the strongly influence clients. The therapist speaking but the utilization of the suggestion realizes that people have to “stub their toes” that makes it an effective agent in behavior and “scrape their noses,” and it is usually change. when mistakes are made and pain is Therapy occurs when the therapist experienced that people are most receptive allows it to occur in a safe environment at to new learning. Thus, the effective therapist the speed which is comfortable for the will not over protect or cushion but will client. allow clients the right to make choices. Subsequently, therapists must help clients THE VALUE OF RESPECT learn from these choices by analyzing their consequences. The best therapists function as sources of inspiration, support and motivation. The Respect is also appreciating the ability of essential ingredients are the therapist's the client to successfully deal with the nature genuine awareness of, respect for, and of his problems. Respectful high- willingness to be responsive to the needs of functioning therapists have high the client. Clients do not enter therapy to be expectations for the ultimate success of the lectured to, ignored or controlled - , they people they counsel. They realize that enter therapy to be understood and assisted successful living is not a matter of chance in their attempts to cope with the realities of but the result of the application of sound their internal and external situations. The principles. Respectful therapists realize that Hypnotherapist can use a wide range of pain can be a treatment ally, and that failure strategies to create trust and cooperation. can be a teacher, so they do not treat individuals as if they were fragile. Respect includes three components. The first is an appreciation for the dignity and Respect is perhaps the most basic worth of others. Respectful therapists can facilitative variable. If a therapist possesses detach themselves from the negative effects respect, he may lack sophistication but still of their clients' unprepossessing appearances be helpful, whereas regardless of how sophisticated and what techniques a therapist why they are seeking professional help. They has or may use, if he lacks respect, he will want you to understand things that they do ultimately have a deteriorative effect on not consciously know, that they are clients. depending on you to understand. The therapist communicates the very The most important things is to know deepest respect for the client's worth as a that you can rely on yourself, and allow your person and enables him to act most subconscious to feed you the right constructively and emerge most fully. The information that causes you to do the therapist communicates a commitment to the appropriate thing at the right time. client to do all he can to enable him to actualize his potential. HOW THE CLIENT WILL TEST YOU IRRATIONAL SUBCONSCIOUS BELIEFS 'Me client needs to know if you have the right kind of strength and will often test you Begin your relationship with the to discover if you are as caring as you should realization that the client you meet in be, and if you are as strong and combative as therapy is not fully rational, or fully capable you should be. When you have an of responding in an adult manner to the intellectual subject, begin your attack in the demands of the specific frustrating intellectual arena. Fit your technique to the situations. They may sound reasonable and client's frame of reference. rational, and present their problems in a manner that sounds mature, but the fact is The authoritarian approach is always that they are often functioning in a very deemed appropriate whenever it utilizes the childish manner. We must recognize and client's previous life experience and current respond to these childish aspects to create a expectation that effective guidance always therapeutic atmosphere. Unreasonable or comes in an authoritarian form. childish beliefs and emotions should not be Recognition, acceptance, and utilization openly challenged as irrational, but can be of whatever the client presents will used in the therapy. Clients should be treated accomplish far more than a biased rejection with a caring acceptance of the childish fears or challenge of it. Clients come to you for that they bring into therapy with them. The help and although they may resist help, they therapist aids the client to express their hope desperately you'll pass their tests. irrational and unpleasant feelings and attitudes quickly and freely and encourages The skilled Hypnotherapist can quickly the client by a willingness to comment transform uncooperative forms of behavior appropriately and without expressing into a feeling of being understood, and a judgmental views. hopeful expectancy of achieving the desired goals.

COMMUNICATION SKILLS UNDERSTANDING HIDDEN Therapists often listen to words, to MESSAGES stories, to psychic histories and do not listen to the actual communications that the client Often clients arrive not knowing why is offering. The actual communications most they are unhappy or disturbed. All they often concern the things that the client is know is that they are unhappy, and they give afraid to face, or unwilling to face. That's a wealth of rationalizations to explain it. Consciously they will tell you any story that DEVELOPING TRUST AND seems to be reasonable, and they'll tell it to HONESTY you with great intensity. They will often In dealing with clients, we must secure make you believe it, but they are using that their cooperation and trust to make certain particular story for a purpose. A person that they respond as well as they can. seeking therapy comes in and tells you one Without their full cooperation, therapeutic story that is believed fully at the conscious results are delayed, distorted, limited or even level and in nonverbal language can give prevented. Once you have created an you a story that is entirely different. atmosphere of trust, confidence and an ex- Verbal and nonverbal communications pectation of success, you can stimulate the between any two people frequently client into action using his natural sources of contradict one another. Verbal agreement motivation as the trigger. might be accompanied by a whole range of The hypnotic state creates a rapport facial expressions, hand movements, body which can be used to enhance the subject's movements, eye response. As the movements and INDIVIDUALIZE YOUR THERAPY TO subject develops even voice MEET THE NEEDS OF THE CLIENT. RE - trust and confidence inflections that in the hypnotist, imply disagreement. EDUCATION OCCURS IN TERMS OF increased response Often clients, while THE CLIENT'S LIFE EXPERIENCES, HIS develops and can be explaining their easily cultivated. problems, will UNDERSTANDINGS, MEMORIES AND Increased response unwittingly nod or ATTITUDES; IT CANNOT OCCUR IN to the ideas shake their heads to presented by the contradict their TERMS OF THE THERAPIST9S hypnotist is most actual OPINIONS OF HOW THE CLIENT desirable because it verbalizations. is what enables the When you are "SHOULD" LIVE HIS LIFE! hypnotist to guide listening to a client, the subject's use of you can never clearly understand him, memories and unused capacities in ways that because you're listening with your ears and create the hypnotic experiences desired. thinking with your own vocabulary. The An important part of all client's desire to client's vocabulary is entirely different and be understood and accepted is the need to each of us has a different meaning to the find someone who will be honest with them, words used. Use feedback, restatement and and will acknowledge the validity of their refraining to increase communication and accurate perceptions. This does not mean mutual understanding. that their irrational fears and irrational be- As the therapist utilizes the client's style liefs must always be given credence, but it of communication to convey meaning, the does mean that the therapists should avoid client begins to feet understood, secure and argument and agree when there is truth in relieved of the burden of deciphering what what the client says. Clients trust therapists the therapist says. A therapeutic relationship who tell them the truth, although it is largely forms and cooperation increases. the client who determines what is true and what is not. The development of trust depends upon honesty and acceptance. Once therapists must have the flexibility to clients have learned that the therapist can be respond to, utilize and redirect that trusted, then the therapist can begin to direct uniqueness. Individualize your therapy to them toward topics and experiences that they meet the needs of the client. Re-education otherwise would avoid. occurs in terms of the client's life experiences, his understandings, memories Therapists who insist that everything and attitudes; it cannot occur in terms of the they present is good and acceptable - and therapist's opinions of how the client must be accepted because it is always “should” live their life! tendered in courteous language and manner - are in serious error. Your concern with the Give the client complete freedom, or client's welfare includes doing things that create an illusion of complete freedom. You can be embarrassing or upsetting to them can give the client a feeling of choice even when you feel it is necessary to motivate though you are determining it. Effective them to use their potential and understand therapists seem to be especially adept at their experience. Be concerned with the presenting information within a context that client's welfare, not with being liked or has personal significance or importance. admired by them. Never comfort the client, They allow their clients to experience things when their welfare requires otherwise, such that demonstrate the truth of what they are as during the reliving of emotional suffering. saying in a direct and undeniable fashion. The best kind of therapy is that which meets Clients learn things that are therapeutic; they the client's needs and offers the best possible are not “cured” by therapists, the therapy therapeutic results without regard for social process is always a learning process. Always niceties or questions of etiquette. In therapy, avoid perfectionistic drives and wishes on humor can be very useful because clients the part of the clients and motivate them to bring in much grief and sadness, but don't be begin with the achievement of lesser goals. afraid to “bring the hammer down” when Achieving the lesser goal creates a more necessary! When you're afraid to say a word confident output of effort that leads to or to name a condition to a client, you're go- reaching larger and more significant goals. ing to alert the client to the fact that you are As we begin to think of ourselves as afraid. The one ruling principle is to focus educators, the utilization of technique and on the client's welfare. Your professional the general set of underlying attitudes dignity is never involved but your becomes more comprehensible and usable. professional competence always is. The major shortcut to the process of Because each client is unique, the form gaining access to the client's subconscious is of intervention and the type of change hypnosis. Hypnosis can accelerate the required is unique as well. The therapist therapist's understandings of and response to creates a setting wherein the client's needs, the messages sent by the client's thoughts and actions are primary and where subconscious. the client feels understood, accepted and willing to cooperate. THEORY OF THE UNCONSCIOUS Therapists must not allow their own The evolution of man is in many ways needs or preferences to determine the dependent on the contributions of science therapy process. The client's potentials, but this study is not the least bit scientific. It knowledge and needs are unique and is a mystical art based on a spiritual philosophy and efforts to learn and practice behavior, the “theory of the unconscious.” it which are based on the theories of Today, the word “atheism” is no longer “science” will always diminish the level of popular and instead is now called professional competence. “humanism.” There is great controversy over “secular humanism” in our schools, Sigmund Freud created the “theory of because it teaches that there is no Divinity, the unconscious,” but only a tiny percentage and all that exists is human relationship and of the world's population ever accepted it. At the ideals that humans can create. the turn of the century the U.S.S.R. rejected it completely. During the next thirty years In his best-selling book THE ROAD Russians scientists developed their research LESS TRAVELED, psychiatrist M. Scott on brain physiology as a behavioral determi- Peck told how he was led to a conclusion nant. about how human transformation occurs. He As a starting point, let's examine briefly discovered that the power is, “God's grace in the theory of the unconscious, and the id, the man.” After a lifetime in this work, I realize ego and the superego. The Id is presented to and accept the truth of his statement. us as a pool of restless, primitive, THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED destructive energy and we are told that we begins with the sentence. “Life is difficult.” must spend our lives in an effort to It is our capacity to cope with life's resocialize it, or it will wreak havoc in our difficulties that makes the difference. We are lives. The theory of the unconscious is only all trying to develop the subconscious a theoretical construct which means simply attitudes, “I am confident, I am competent, I that someone constructed a theory. The only am effective, I can cope!” reason to accept a theoretical construct is I describe this study as a “mystical art.” when there is no other possible alternative Let me illustrate: Millions of people take explanation. Then we must say, “Since that's piano lessons and a percentage of them learn all we've got, I guess we'll have to accept it to play well enough to entertain their family for now.” and friends. An even smaller percentage However, in the study of human learn to play well enough to earn income at behavior there are literally hundreds of weddings or at an elegant restaurant. A alternative theories. I reject the theory of the smaller percentage earn a reputation unconscious because nowhere in that throughout their city and state, but only one concept is there any implication that within in ten million becomes a virtuoso. When the each of us there is a center of intelligence, appearance of a virtuoso is announced in any that not only knows the problems but knows major city, excited music lovers line up to all the answers. This creative intelligence is buy tickets to be thrilled to the depths of our link to a Higher Power and is our Divine their being by the musical artistry of the Nature, which separates us from all other performer. That's what it means to be an animals. The thinking brain is only part of artist! our spiritual gifts and our ability to reason Of course, the piano virtuoso in that inductively is another part of the same gifts. concert hall in London, or Paris, or Vienna, All psychotherapy training taught in started practicing six hours a day many years universities begins with a psychoanalytic ago and is still practicing every day - even foundation which incorporates and embraces on the days of his performance. It takes great an intrinsically atheistic view of human devotion to become that kind of an artist but that should be your aspiration for even if you Hypnotism because he had the “Hypnotism fall short, your commitment to excellence is Fever” and he felt that it was a more always the goal. effective ministry for him. Isn't it amazing that he was told that he had to make a choice The issue here today is, what kind of a because God's work can only be done in a artist do you want to be? Only you can make manner approved by a human! the choice. I refute and reject the view held by the If God has smiled on me today, there are psychotherapeutic establishment that says a few people in this group, who have now, the two major principles in psychotherapy or will soon get the “Hypnotism Fever.” are: 1. everyone needs and can benefit This means, a commitment to this work that greatly from psychotherapy; - THATS A will grow so great that the use of this work LIE! - the truth is that almost all of the to send good into the universe will become world's population has not only survived the number one mission of your life and you without psychotherapy but most have lived will discover your purpose on this planet. satisfying and productive lives: 2. the Those few will do great things and they are motivations for human behavior are so going to carry this work into areas where it complex and deep-rooted that the is now unknown. That is the thrill and effectiveness of psychotherapy is directly excitement I feel when teaching. equated with the extended duration of Ten years ago, in the field of speech treatment; - THAT”S A LIE! - the truth is pathology training, the mention of the word that therapy is most effective as short-term “hypnotism” to the professor in the class, intervention to produce behavioral change. would cause a tirade about how hypnotism Therapy of more than limited duration is was of no use in speech disorders. Then, Dr. usually counter-productive because it creates Kenneth Knepflar of Pasadena came to study psychic dependence on the therapist; it de- with me and he got the “Hypnotism Fever.” lays and avoids coping with real life He began to speak and present papers on problems and it often leads to financial hypnosis at professional seminars. A year exploitation. later with a professor at Tulane University, Therapeutic benefit is not only derived he presented the first annual conference, from seeing a therapist! Life is a therapy; “Me use of Hypnosis in Speech and falling in love is a therapy; getting a divorce Communication Disorders.” Dr. Knepflar can be a therapy; getting Fired can be a helped us to expand our profession. Some of therapy; having surgery can be therapeutic - you will go on to do similar things in other not just because of the physical benefits but fields and that's why I'm here to teach you. because when you come close to death you Some years ago I trained a man who realign your values. You give up the myth of worked with the destitute and homeless, for your physical invincibility, you know you the Salvation Army. Once he learned are going to die someday. You get closer to hypnotism he began working with those it and you think “I had better get my act people to lift their feelings of hopelessness. together before it's too late.” He was getting extraordinary results until I want to talk about a great psychologist, one day his superior came to him and said whose life was dramatically transformed. He that he would have to give up hypnotism or was a violent and destructive man, and one he couldn't be attached to the Salvation day as he rode his horse, Saul of Tarsus was Army as a minister any longer. He chose struck down and blinded. A while later, after who was fascinated with hypnotism, later he had been transformed and was known as gave it up, yet in 1919, near the end of his Paul he said, “Be ye transformed, in the career Freud said, “If psychoanalysis is ever twinkling of an eye.” to be made available to the greatest number of people it can only be with the aid of Yes, that's how long it takes - in the hypnosis as a short cut.” The old prejudice twinkling of an eye your life can be still holds sway in the universities and they transformed. “Be ye transformed by the still don't teach hypnotherapy, yet there is a renewing of your mind,” - to make the mind small percentage of those psychiatrists and new again. It means to clear out ineffective, psychologists who practice hypnotism who frustrating beliefs that you hold about vehemently state that no one is qualified to yourself, the world around you and your practice it unless they are a member of their relationship to it, and to replace them with professional groups. How did they get to be life-affirming, nourishing beliefs that enable experts if there is not a single university in you to be all that God and nature intended America that teaches hypnotherapy as part of you to be. To know that you can cope, no the curriculum that leads to licensing? matter how involved life's problems are, does not mean that your life will become a The psychotherapist deals with the mind series of blissful experiences. in different ways than we do, based on different principles. Some of you have attended universities and studied THE LEGAL BASIS FOR psychotherapy and have been licensed as HYPNOTHERAPIST therapists. I simply say, “I respect your bias - Why does this school exist and why are what you've learned is what you've come to you here to study with me instead of in the believe. I hope that your bias doesn't cause universities? Because hypnotherapy is not you to reject what I teach, just because it is taught in universities. In fact, most different.” I ask you to consider my points of professors in universities still deny that there view in your effort to search out truth. We is a vocational title of “Hypnotherapist.” have no conflicts, for you have your bias and They still say that hypnotherapy is only a I have mine. I'm in the position of “tool” that therapists use. expressing new ideas to you, some of which But in 1978 the Federal Government may generate conflicts with your existing accepted “Hypnotherapist” as a defined beliefs. Please keep an open mind because occupation and published it in the I'm not focusing on theories, but on Dictionary of Occupational Titles. This demonstrated results. means that it is completely separate from other kinds of therapists. It doesn't say “a WHAT IS HYPNOSIS? psychotherapist who uses hypnotism” in the There is no legal definition of hypnosis definition. All laws that license anywhere in the world. Included in your psychologists simply reserve the use of the class notes is a collection of quotes from occupational title of psychologist. many experts, all of whom have achieved Most of the people who have learned reputation with their writings on hypnotism. hypnotherapy, and use it effectively are not Each of them has attempted to define what psychotherapists. They are not University hypnotism is and none of them agree. trained because it is not taught there. Freud, Hypnosis is a natural state of mind, there is nothing unnatural or supernatural about it. Let's create a scenario. You are in your Every person has a natural capacity for office with a client and you go through your response to hypnosis, which means that usual efforts to produce trance but they have there is no such thing as a good subject or a trouble responding and you say to them “you bad subject. Even if you believe “I'm a bad are resisting.” They are going to say to you - subject,” you are going to learn differently, “What do you mean - I'm resisting? Didn't I because when I work with you, you are pay you my money? Why do you tell me I'm going to go into a trance instantly, and the resisting? I came here to stop smoking (or “bad” subjects will do as well as the “good” whatever)” Then you will respond by saying subjects. “I don't mean that you are resisting consciously, you are resisting sub- Hypnotherapy is unique, because there is consciously.” They don't know what the no other known way in which you can subconscious is - it's a new concept to them, actually observe, in an age regression, how a so why tell them, “you're resisting person acquired the ideas that became fixed subconsciously, on one level you want to in the mind and how these ideas were cooperate but etc.” reinforced and eventually became dominant ideas that controlled behavior. Now, many Let me give you a different way to years after the original sensitizing event, that handle the situation. Suppose you have that person always acts the same way in the same difficulty and you say “It seems to me that situation, like a player on a stage. The there is a slight inhibition on your response, curtain goes up - they know one set of lines, so let's talk about it for a moment.” only one character to play. Everyone acknowledges that they have inhibitions of one kind or another, so always I want to instill in you an awareness of use the word “inhibition” instead of the excitement and wonder of what you are “resistance.” Certain persons may going to learn. Nothing can touch it, or even demonstrate inhibition on their response. come close to it for effectiveness, no matter This means that some will respond better how lengthy and convoluted the theories and faster and easier than others. If it's a may be. natural state of mind and everyone has a Hypnosis is the original holistic system natural capacity for response, why do some and once you master it, you will be riding on respond better than others? There are two the crest of a great wave of holistic systems major reasons. that are sweeping the world. Our disappointment with the traditional systems of treatment and healing has turned us HOW MISUNDERSTANDING towards alternative methods. DEVELOPS The first cause of inhibition is We've established that hypnosis is a misunderstanding. From the time that you natural state of mind with special identifying are very small your exposure to this strange characteristics. You learned that there is no word was characterized by inappropriate such thing as a good subject or a bad subject usage. which means that everyone has a natural capacity for response and that it is within When you were, three or four years old - your nature to respond. However, there are at Sunday morning breakfast your father differences in the response level and many may have said to your mother, “You know I call the difference “resistance.” just can't understand Reverend Green running off with that woman who led the “Well, he certainly had a powerful choir. She has a husband and five children influence on them. He motivated them to and he has a wife and four children. I just commit murder for him.” can't - understand that man.” Mother said, I said “The definition of hypnosis is not “Well John, that woman has him “exerting a powerful influence.” hypnotized.” You were four years old and the meaning of this new word became, “If A short time later a young woman you cannot understand the behavior - then disappeared from her apartment under they must be hypnotized.” mysterious circumstances and later the local radio station received a cassette. Patricia “Hypnosis” becomes a sort of catch-all Hearst said that she had joined the term. Some years ago some terrible and Symbionese Liberation Army, and she was heinous crimes were committed and when to be known as Tanya. The attorneys the criminals were apprehended, the representing the Hearst family said, “It's newspapers said, “Charles Manson obvious Patricia has been hypnotized and hypnotizes Family brain washed.” members.” WE HAVE NO RIGHT TO SAY TO During her trial, her (“Family” meaning ANYONE, "YOU ARE A POOR SUBJECT." attorney, F. Lee the Manson follow- Bailey, never raised ers.) When I called WE ARE THE PROFESSIONALS AND IT the issue of the newspaper they IS A PROBLEM FOR US TO SOLVE. hypnosis yet he is a directed me to a highly skilled police lieutenant in amateur hypnotist. charge of the news release. I asked him, “What's the evidence that RE-EDUCATION Manson hypnotized anyone? Did a hypnotism school operator, like me, say Because hypnosis is the most 'Yes, I taught him to hypnotize'?” misunderstood subject, the first thing you are going to have to do with people without He replied, “No.” previous experience with hypnosis is to re- “Perhaps you found a great collection of educate them. When you set out to hypnotize books on the subject and decided he was them, you must first deal with their self-taught?” conscious mind and you are going to have to correct some misunderstandings. “No.” They will say things like “I didn't go to “Did someone say to you, 'I saw him sleep, I heard every word that you said.” or hypnotize others. '?” “You said to me, 'Wake-up,' but I wasn't “No” asleep” because they don't understand “Did someone tell you, 'Yes, he “trance.” hypnotized me'?” “No.” IDENTIFYING SUBCONSCIOUS FEARS “Then why did you say to the newspapers that he hypnotized these The second reason that some people people?” don't go easily into trance, is “subconscious fears.” For most, it is the fear of losing were very threatening, very punitive and control. We live in a society with a control who physically battered the children. mania which is directly related to our feelings of helplessness in the culture. YOUR PROFESSIONAL Think of the many threats that exist; RESPONSIBILITY we're told that the air is polluted, the food is We have no right to say to anyone, “You contaminated from sprays to make it grow. are a poor subject.” We are the professionals The beef is full of steroids, the chickens are and it is a problem for us to solve. It is up to full of poisons, the doctors are pumping us us to find a way around that inhibition by a full of deadly drugs, the lead in the gasoline frontal assault, or tunneling under that wall is polluting the air, AIDS kills and you could or making an end run around it. It is our be mugged, raped or hit by a drunken driver responsibility to put those people into a at any time. trance. We can't do anything about those things That's what they are there for because and so we feel our helplessness. In addition, that's what we advertise, that's what we hold there are personal issues that we all have felt out as a service. If our incompetence helpless about at one time or another such as prevents that from happening, we can't put relationship conflicts and other issues. the blame on the client. A proof that “control madness” is part of Many experts believe that there are only this culture, is that Valium has been the two main approaches to the induction of largest selling medication for the past five hypnosis; paternal and maternal, or years. authoritarian and permissive but that's a There are other common fears which are meaningless concept which has no created by the movies, novels and cartoons, connection with this work as I teach it. fears such as “If I ever go into a trance, I'll The “Myth of Ericksonian reveal all of my secrets.” The truth is that Hypnotherapy” - is the title of a paper that people won't tell anything they don't want to was presented in the journal of the American tell, even when they are hypnotized. Society for Clinical Hypnosis by a professor Another fear is the “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Hyde fear.” We all have split off parts of He had been a protege of Erickson and he ourselves - the angry self, the lustful self, and five others who enjoyed a special etc. - and the fear is, “If I ever really go into relationship with Erickson all said the same a trance, that hidden part of me will thing - that the only reason that he appeared emerge.” indirect in the last part of his career, was that he was paralyzed, in a wheel chair and had a Other fears that I've uncovered are a fear partial paralysis of his vocal chords. In the of sexual assault, usually from women who book titled “UNCOMMON THERAPY” by were sexually abused in their childhood. As Jay Haley you can really understand the a result, letting go, (surrender) in the genius of Milton Erickson and his great presence of a male, triggers a subconscious variety of approaches to therapy. fear. “I won't have control - I won't know what's happening - it'll be just like when I You'll see as you read that book, that was six years old.” There is also a similar Erickson did what any honest therapist does fear in men who had fathers or mothers who in this work - he analyzed the needs of the client quickly and he adopted the role that that I have to trick you into it.” met their needs. He was the instrument; Say to them: “Are you ready to be Erickson's work is not based on indirection. hypnotized?” “Fine, then I'm going to Jay Haley tells how Erickson - on the right hypnotize you right now.” That's the true occasions - could be very aggressive when relationship. The surgeon doesn't trick you necessary. into an operation. He explains it to you and Haley writes of a woman who came to you agree to get on the operating table and Erickson and talked about her obesity, and say, “Do it now.” finally she said “When I get up in the morning and stand in front of the mirror and LEARNING TO PLAY ROLES look at those rolls of fat hanging down, I feel disgusted.” If this were an acting class and I said, “we are going to put on a one act play next Erickson said, “It's more than disgusting, week as an exercise. This is a story about a it's absolutely revolting.” He said, “it makes house of prostitution in the ghetto. John, you me sick to my stomach to stand here and are going to be the crooked politician, who look at you. How can you create that gets a pay-off to allow all this corruption to ugliness on your body and then display it to go on. Frank, you're going to be the procurer the world?” who goes out to rind these young innocent She became insulted and stomped out. small-town girls getting off the bus and hook Six weeks later she called and said “I've lost them on drugs and drag them in here. Helen, seventeen pounds, can I start therapy now?” you're the madam and Bill, you're going to That's the true therapist at work. No one had be the priest who believes he's going to save ever talked to her like that before. She the souls of these poor children of the probably had been to a succession of night.” therapists who think that therapy consists of As actors you might say, “Well, I don't positive suggestion and reassurance. know much about being a pimp but I'll try to The Induction of hypnosis can be totally draw on my imagination, from what I've authoritarian - or totally permissive or read and what I've seen. Maybe I'll go anywhere in between. You must develop the downtown and look around the streets and flexibility to play the roles, according to how see what's happening out there.” In rehearsal you perceive the needs of the client. you would make an effort to play those roles and as you continued to rehearse you would I've read books by psychologists who master the roles. claim to be experts at hypnotism and they say “The permissive methods are the ONLY Are you flexible enough to say, “I can methods used in the therapy office.” “People meet the needs of the client. I can be as soft do not want to be dominated, people do not and gentle and as indirect as I need to be or I want to be told what to do.” and “You must can be as authoritarian as I need to be.” They create the most indirect double binds.” Then don't pay their money for you to be they go into all kinds of tricks and comfortable with what you call your “style” manipulations. You don't need to use tricks or “personality.” and manipulations in hypnotherapy. To do Of course, each of us has ways that we so, is to treat the client as a fool and to say to prefer to behave. Preference is different them “This is something so scary or difficult from choice. Choice is intellectually based. “I prefer to be this way, but I'm willing to be Every four years we are treated to a flexible and meet the needs of the client.” wonderful exhibition of the glory of the human spirit, called the Olympic Games. We have learned that hypnosis is a We sit in comfort in our homes and watch natural state of mind with special identifying young people who made a commitment characteristics and now we'll learn the next many years before. Back then, they said “I important definition. am going to pay the price. I am going to work diligently and creatively and one day, SUGGESTIBILITY DEFINED with the world watching, I will run faster A suggestion is an idea that reaches the than anyone has ever run before. I will jump mind through the five physical senses and/or higher or I will dive with greater elegance the basic perceptions. and grace than anyone has before,” and in that special moment in time, they do it. We When you read a book, you discover sit and witness it and we say “Thank you, many ideas but they can become suggestions Lord, for if they can achieve that mighty only when they begin to move into your goal, I can achieve mine, whatever it may internal mental system. When you begin to be.” classify and identify and filter them as “Now, that's a good idea, I think I'll start During the 1984 Olympic games we doing that tomorrow” or “That's a good watched on television as a young gymnast, thought, I think I'm going to just write that Mary Lou Retton, starred in the high drama down on a card and keep it in my wallet” of gold medal competition. Mary Lou had to that idea becomes a suggestion. throw a perfect vault, and score a perfect 10, in order to win the gold medal. Through the In hypnosis we use the power of magic of super slow-motion we saw her start suggestion as a separate tool within the her run, and after two steps we saw the set of framework of trance. Hypnosis is the her chin and we knew that she was going to development and maintenance of a trance do it. She thundered down to that horse, and a suggestion is an idea that reaches the vaulted up and over and down, her hands deeper mind because of trance. flew over her head and we knew it was a ten The next word is: “Suggestibility.” This and every one of the judges knew it, too. word has very negative connotations. We Then, because she had to do it twice she say, “Oh, you are so suggestible. Anyone went right back and did it all over again for can sell you anything - you read some another perfect ten. As soon as her scores advertising about a new product and you went up, she ran across the arena, to a man rush off to buy it.” who leaned over and scooped her up in his arms and together they celebrated the thrill Suggestibility is a measure of the of the moment. The man was her coach, intensity with which your brain and nervous Bela Karolyi. system respond to incoming ideas. All highly creative people are intensely She ran to her coach to celebrate because suggestible and suggestibility is the Bela Karolyi is the one who gave her the foundation of creativity. suggestions and instructions in training. Championship athletes must be highly coachable athletes, which means that they GOAL SETTING AND can easily internalize the coach's suggestions SUGGESTIBILITY and execute them. emulate this kind of spirit. I am personally humbled.” Greg Louganis is probably the greatest diver in the history of the sport. Think of the We cannot ever realize our fullest many thousands of times he stood on the potential unless we develop our board and did a dive. Think how often his suggestibility. For when we do, nothing in coach said, “No, this time you must get a our subconscious can interfere with our little more height off your left foot.” If he internalizing and acting out appropriate, was able to do it after a few tries, that meant soul-satisfying suggestions, directions and he was very coachable, that he could instructions. Not even our will to fail, not internalize the suggestion and express it our feelings of inferiority, nor any of our immediately. fears. Think again about Bela Karolyi. Before he came to this country he worked In the 1984 Games Louganis finished far with another little girl who scored perfect ahead of the Silver Medallist, but in 1988 in tens in the Olympic games and won the gold Seoul, Korea, as he stood on the board for medal. Nadia Comenichi was also perfect his final dive, he knew the Gold Medal hung while the world watched. It is evident that in the balance. It was just two days earlier Karolyi is an expert in developing and when Greg had experienced every diver's utilizing the suggestibility of young greatest fear when he struck his head on the gymnasts. board. Shortly after five stitches had been put in his scalp, he returned to complete two final dives in the qualifying round. GULLIBILITY DEFINED There was no margin for error in the Gullibility is another very loaded word. final round for a boy of half his age; fourteen “Oh, you're so gullible, you'll believe year old Xiong Ni of China led the quest for anything.” Gullible means the uncritical the Gold by three points after nine dives. acceptance of ideas. Uncritical is the key Xiong's tenth and last dive was nearly word and once ideas are accepted perfect. As Louganis stood poised for his uncritically they can become fixed ideas in final dive, he knew that just as four years the subconscious mind. earlier Mary Lou Retton needed to be perfect When we were children we were very in her “golden moment,” he must now reach gullible. down to find the courage and grace to be better in a more difficult dive. Perhaps when you were three years old, your four year old brother decided he was In a beautiful, flashing, reverse three and going to “pull your leg.” He may have asked a half somersault, Greg Louganis showed you, “Did you know that the moon is made the world the “heart of a champion, “ and of green cheese?” became the first man in modem Olympic history to win back-to-back Gold Medal You answered - “No, I didn't know that.” championships in both platform and spring- He replied, “Well, it is.” board diving in consecutive Olympic games. The next day your little girl friend came Chinese diving coach Xu Yiming said, to play with you and you said to her, “Did “We must all learn from Louganis' will and you know the moon was made of green determination. In adversity, he was able to cheese?” rise up and win the championship. We must She replied “No it isn't. I saw the “I don't know.” astronaut on television and my Mom “Did anyone tell you where he went?” explained it all to me.” “Grandma said that he went to Heaven to Now at that point, you were able to live with God and the angels.” Then they change the idea easily for a number of start crying even harder. “I don't want him to reasons. First of all, you knew the source live with God and the Angels, I want him to was your brother, who was a child just as live with me.” you were and you knew that he was subject to teasing and kidding and lying. Second, it The adult explanation didn't penetrate didn't really mean very much in your into the feeling level of the child's mind. The emotional life whether the moon was made interpretation is “I want to be with Daddy, of green cheese, or no cheese at all. Third, but Daddy doesn't want to be with me, you hadn't heard that idea repetitiously, over therefore – “he doesn't love me.” So at five and over again. Fourth, you hadn't heard it years of age he develops a sensitizing fixed from a variety of idea that becomes sources. You only WHEN PEOPLE HAVE REACHED A the foundation for a heard it from your life-long fear of brother, not from POINT OF READINESS FOR CHANGE, rejection, due to his your mother or from THERE'S VERY LITTLE YOU CAN DO feeling mind other sources. interpretation. Therefore you could TO PREVENT THEM FROM CHANGING. say “I know it's not CHANGING made of green cheese. She says she saw it on FIXED IDEAS television and that's the way it is.” In Hypnotherapy we change those We must deal with the critical factor of interpretations through the uncovering and the conscious mind, which is the part of the re-education methods that we use. When an conscious mind that enables us to examine idea is presented to an adult mind it is incoming ideas critically. This means that screened against the accumulation of we use the accumulation of our experiences knowledge, experience and the interpretation and what we've learned from those experi- which is stored in the “critical factor of the ences, and how we interpret the experiences. conscious mind.” It's function is to act as a Not everyone learns the same thing from an filtering screen, so that when ideas are experience, nor interprets the experience in presented we have a way of analyzing them. the same way. We look for the rational content and decide During an age regression when I take if it connects with material that we have someone back to the time of their father's previously stored. If we are unable to make a death when they were only five years old, I connection or if the incoming ideas are ask, irrational, then we reject them. If it is a totally new idea, the tendency in the adult “Where's your father?” mind is to reject it unless there are very They may start crying and say, “I don't favorable circumstances involved in the know, he went away.” reception of that new idea: “Where did he go?” For example: imagine a young man who doesn't have any familiarity with classical music. He speaks of opera as high-brow retroactively, after the fact, “Wow! have you stuff and boring. Then he meets and falls in changed! It's two years since I've seen you love with a young lady who is very devoted and I can see as I talk to you that you are a to classical music and opera. In the midst of totally different person,” - “Yes I have this love affair, she's teaching him all about changed,” - “I know that I have changed.” opera. Soon he has learned a great many new We can hope that we are going to things and he no longer finds opera boring. change, we can plan to change but the only He is changing his ideas because there is a way that we are going to know that we have big payoff at an emotional level. changed is through the ongoing, continuing In hypnosis we create a state of mind in expression of change. Just as hypnosis is a which the critical factor becomes mystery, change is a mystery, it can't be temporarily inactive. It doesn't disappear, it predicted. We can't initiate change by just stops analyzing for rational content and talking about change for if we could, it stops evaluating in terms of previous everyone would be changing all the time be- knowledge or fictitious beliefs that we have cause we are always talking about it. We accepted. can't experience change because we long for it, any more than the desire and thought of When we say, “I just know that I can't food can fill an empty stomach. The only stand up in front of a crowd and give a talk, way we can experience change is when we because I'll be mortified,” that is a fictitious initiate a process of change, which means belief because we can. We may need some when we begin engaging in different conditioning to overcome fear responses in behavior. As a therapist all you can do is say our body, but we can do it. We only believe regularly, “Thank you Lord, for allowing me that we can't. What we are really saying is, to play this part in the mysterious process of “I won't, because I don't want to feel the change.” feelings that occur when I do.” We must give those thanks every day – When working in hypnosis we because we are among the fortunate few; we deliberately attempt to generate gullibility, can observe, First hand, the process of which means the uncritical acceptance of change, knowing that we played a part in it, ideas. Why should anyone be willing to and that knowledge keeps our hope for accept uncritically, the ideas, suggestions or change alive and active! directions that we present to them? How can we acquire such significance in their psychic If you are fortunate enough, you will existence? One reason is because they are never suffer from despair, and never slip desperate; they say, “Well I've tried into hopelessness and anti-life behavior everything else, so I'm going to try hypnosis, because each day of your life you will see “- that's when they've reached a point of the miracle of change right in front of you, “readiness for change.” but you must give up thinking that you'll change simply because you are helping other When people have reached a point of people to change. You will change when you readiness for change, there's very little you say “I'll do the same hard work that my can do to prevent them from changing. It clients did.” might take them years to get to the point of readiness for change but when they've Helping others is not going to transform reached it nothing will stop them from you, even though you may believe that it changing. Change can only be perceived will. When you have helped enough and the testimonials are piled high, you can still feel transforming our lives. We set out to create a the same negative feelings inside and you'll willingness in the client to accept and say, “I thought that helping others was going become gullible to our ideas. The best to do it for me but it hasn't.” Many feel that hypnotherapists know how to create strong once they have enough money, they'll feel gullibility and uncritical acceptance and the differently inside. central element in the process is TRUST! and the clients' awareness of our devotion to Anthony Quinn, in his autobiography them. titled “THE ORIGINAL SIN” told of a time when he was on Broadway, co-starring with When you sit down with someone, no Sir John Gielgud, in a play that had good matter how troubled they may be, within a critical reviews and good advance box- brief period of time (ten or fifteen minutes) - office. He had two pictures playing in they must begin to feel enveloped by your downtown Manhattan and had received an caring, divine love. They must feel that all of Academy Award for one and the other was your thoughts and all of your energies are fo- his newest film. He had just purchased a cused only on them during the time that they townhouse in the most exclusive part of are there. You must begin to penetrate into Manhattan and had filled it with antiques their psyche, because you're not there to sit and art treasures. At that point he attempted and take notes, saying “Very interesting.” suicide. It was because of the fantasy he had: They become willing to reveal “Once I reach this next goal I'll feel themselves to you. They can go into their differently inside.” Actor Fernando Lamas psyche and go back to when they were just once told me that he and Tony Quinn were as willing at four, or five years old, to accept working on a picture in Spain and one night suggestions and directions from mother or while drinking a few bottles of wine, Tony dad. said to him, “Sometimes when I'm walking down the street in Beverly Hills, I'll see Now we are going to do some people stop and point to me. Intellectually, I suggestibility testing. I am going to show believe they are saying, 'Look, there's you that ideas presented to a group will Anthony Quinn the movie star,' but my generate a wide range of responses. For the subconscious mind tells me they are saying, first one, I'd like you to take everything that 'There's that Mexican son-of-a-bitch that is in your hands and put them under your married Cecil B. De Mille's daughter.”' chair between your feet. When you've done that please stand. At the end of the book Quinn gave his interpretation of the “original sin.” He said that the original sin is our inability and our SUGGESTIBILITY TESTING unwillingness to accept and be nourished by Extend both hands out in front of you the love, affection and approval that like this, reach out as far as you can. Turn surrounds us all of the time. If we process the palm of your right hand upward toward that a little bit further in spiritual philosophy the ceiling, curl the fingers of your right we come to - “our unwillingness to accept hand slightly. Hold them in that position and the fact that God loves us.” listen to my instructions. In a moment I'll The process of change is always exciting count from three down to one and when I do and mysterious, and we are fortunate to play I want you to close your eyelids down. The a part in it. It can be a vital factor in instant your eyelids close down I want you to imagine, as I describe it, that in your right seated. hand I am placing the handle of a bucket - a Let's hear first from some who thought plastic bucket which is half filled with sand they had a very good response. Raise your weighing about twenty-five pounds and then hand, I want you to tell me how that felt, several gallons of water poured on top of what were you thinking and feeling, what that. You will feel that weight bringing your was going on. right arm down, down, down. At the same time I am going to tie a string around your STUDENT: “Well, I could feel mainly left wrist, on the end of that string is a the weight in my right arm, it hurt pulling helium filled balloon three feet across. Since down on it and locking in my shoulder.” that is lighter than air, it is going to tug your BOYNE: “What color was your left hand up, up, as the weight of the bucket bucket?” pulls your right hand down and down and the balloon is tugging your left hand up, up. STUDENT: “Red.” Get ready, three, two, one, close your BOYNE: “Let's hear from someone else. eyelids down. Now I'm going to put the Here's a hand.” handle of the bucket into your right hand, STUDENT: “My arm is so sore, from get ready. There it is, feel the weight now as the weight. This arm hurts and my balloon it begins to pull your right hand down, think was blue and my bucket was green.” about it. What color is your bucket? Now BOYNE: “Someone else.” I'm going to tie the string around your wrist, turning it loose, and you feel the tug of that STUDENT: “I thought the bucket was large balloon pulling your left hand up, up, on my wrist instead of in my hand. My up. Drawing it up, pulling it up and the bucket was yellow and my balloon was weight of the bucket in the right hand, yellow.” drawing it down. Now be careful, curl your BOYNE: “Many think that those fingers, you don't want that bucket to fall on receiving the suggestions always accept your toes. What color is your balloon, as it is them just as they hear them, but they can pulling your hand up, up, higher, higher, easily modify them. He didn't consciously higher as your right hand is being drawn say, 'let's have it on the wrist instead of in down, down, down. Right hand being drawn the hand' but some other part of his mind down, left hand being pulled up, up, up. As said that. Someone else.” your left hand goes up, your right hand is going down. Right being pulled down and STUDENT: “Some part of my mind kept your left hand up, up, up. saying, ‘When can I get rid of this bucket’? It was starting to hurt my fingers.” Now, stop. Don't move a muscle. Hold your hands exactly as they are. Open your BOYNE: “Someone else.” eyes and look around, but first look at your STUDENT: “I felt fullness in the hand arms. Look to the person to the right of you, with the balloon and more heat.” to the left of you, look in front, look in back. There are responses in this group ranging all BOYNE: “You were able to hallucinate the way from hands far apart to those that changes of temperature in your hand, have barely moved. Yet, everyone heard because obviously it didn't change exactly the same suggestion. Please be temperature, but you experienced it as getting hotter. Someone else.” STUDENT: “This hand started to go Now I'm going to tell you something down before I closed my eyes, I could feel important that you will tell to your clients the weight when you first said what you over and over again. If you can't surrender were going to do.” control when you want to, or when you need to and it's in your own best interests to do so, BOYNE: “That means that you began to you do not have control. respond to the pre-suggestion.” We always have those who rationalize at the beginning Many times the Hypnotherapist will of a class. There are always those who say, work with women who have problems “Well, of course, if you hold your hands out achieving orgasm, which is really a problem long enough they are going to get heavy and of “letting go.” Quite often it is based on the right arm is going to go down.” But what early experiences of sexual abuse and nega- makes the other arm go up? If it's the law of tive imagery. When the feelings begin to gravity working, what makes the left arm mount, simultaneously, inhibitors begin to rise? Some of you had difficulty getting any come in to reduce feelings so that she can movement at all. not experience the Please raise your IF YOU CANNOT SURRENDER fullness of sexual hand, tell me about response with that. CONTROL WHEN YOU WANT TO OR surrender. The greater the degree of STUDENT: “I WHEN YOU NEED TO, AND IT'S IN surrender, the felt when you said YOUR BEST INTEREST TO DO SO, YOU greater the degree of 'suggestibility' that response. When that you were trying to DO NOT HAVE CONTROL. client comes in and manipulate me. By they are exhibiting that over control, say to me holding my arms out so long, gravity them, “Can you lie down and totally relax would take effect and I imagined everything yourself in about thirty seconds, relax every you said but my mind said 'he's just trying to muscle and nerve. Can you go to sleep easily manipulate me and talking for so long, so whenever you want to, can you just say “I'm that the gravity would take effect.”' going to take a brief nap” or do you say “No, BOYNE: “Fred analyzed what was going I'm too charged up for that.” Their answer is on instead of imagining, he was analyzing. always “No!” When you analyze, you inhibit the STUDENT: “I didn't get a very good subconscious from creating the effect. What picture at all, not of the bucket nor the color was your balloon?” balloon.” STUDENT: “Blue.” BOYNE: “Are you one who says, 'I have BOYNE: “What color was your difficulty visualizing.”' bucket?” STUDENT: “Yes.” STUDENT: “Red” BOYNE: “Later, we are going to have a BOYNE: “He could imagine the colors, lesson, “How to visualize” and I am going to but he had a counter thought, 'No, I'm not show you a film of a man who said he going to be manipulated.' That is part of couldn't visualize, yet when he was in the what I talked about earlier, - fear of losing trance, he was able to see, to smell, to taste, control.” to respond through all of his senses. Is there anyone who thought their hands didn't move together. SLEEP! Turn loose now, relax, let at all?” a good pleasant feeling come all across your body. That's right, just turning loose, letting STUDENT: “I tried to envision the go. Way down. Loosely, limply, relaxing, container in the right hand and I was able to arms dropping limply just like a rag doll. do that very well so that in my hand I could Feel good all over now, legs relaxed, that's feel the pain as I was trying to hold it. I had it, totally relaxed. Feet turning out, let them a yellow balloon but I was concentrating turn out. Relax those long thigh muscles. more on this so the left hand didn't go up although it seems as though I was working I'm going to count from five down to one on it, trying to decide my own mind.” and as I do, your eyelids lock so tightly closed, the more you try to open them the BOYNE: “Trying is lying! For example: tighter they are locking closed. Five, eyelids Bob is standing here in front of me and I pressing down. At four they are pressing take a pencil and throw it on the floor and down and sealing shut. Three, they are say to him 'Bob, try to pick up the pencil.' feeling as if they were glued. At two they are He picks it up and hands it to me. I throw it locked, the more you try to open them the on the floor again and say, 'Bob, try to pick tighter they are locking closed. One, try to up the pencil.' He picks it up and hands it to open your eyelids and find they are stuck me and says, 'What's going on? I'm picking tight. Make a try and satisfy yourself. Now it up.' He would have a valid point because you can stop trying and just relax. my request is inappropriate. 'Try' indicates difficulty and potential for failure. Now let's Listen carefully now, this is going to be change it. If I were an orthopedic surgeon your signal. Whenever I look straight at you and Bob had had a disc surgery and we were when y our eyes are open, and say these two working to regain flexibility in his back words, “Sleep now,” and snap my fingers because he's never been able to bend over like this, on the finger snap your eyelids that far since the surgery - and I say 'Bob, try close down and you go deeper in sleep, even to pick up that pencil,' all of a sudden it has deeper than you are right now. Now, at the meaning, because we are acknowledging the count of three, eyelids open, looking straight difficulty and the possibility for failure. ahead, I'll say the words “Sleep now,” snap That's what 'try' means. 'Trying is lying' - if my fingers, eyelids close down, deeper in it is possible for you to do it, either you ARE sleep. One, two, three, opening, opening, doing it or you ARE NOT doing it. When opening, Sleep now. Close them down and you say 'try' you are saying, 'excuse me for go deeper. Each time I say those words, not doing it, but I tried - God knows I tried.”' “Sleep now,” and snap my fingers, your eyelids close down and you go much deeper STUDENT: “Yes, I did see a balloon but in sleep, deeper than you are right now. not the bucket. What concerned me was that Again at the count of three. One, two, three, I had a terrible pain in my arm, and I was opening, opening, sleep now, and again, holding the bucket in my right hand and that much deeper than before. Once again, one, is the arm that should have hurt.” two, three, opening, opening, sleep now, BOYNE: “How's your shoulder now?” that's good. And again, one, two, three, STUDENT: “It's a little better.” opening, opening, opening, sleep now. That will always be your signal, when I say those BOYNE: “Come on over here please. words, “Sleep now,” and snap my fingers, Turn and face me. That's it. Pull your feet eyelids close down and go deeper in sleep. A common method of inducing trance is One, two, three, opening, opening, sleep to fatigue and tire the central nervous system now. I'll count to three this time, eyelids through the presentation of monotonous, open, come right up on your feet. One, two, repetitive ideas incorporating suggestions of three, eyelids open. All right, let's talk about sleep, relaxation, turning loose and letting that for a moment. go. In other words, there is a lack of content, so that the intellectual mind, screening for “You kind of surprised yourself didn't content finds that there is little to analyze. In you?” which case, it can begin to disconnect and STUDENT: “Everything just went out once that filtering screen relaxes, the from under me.” subconscious becomes open and receptive. BOYNE: “Now do you think that you At some point, whether during the first were in a trance?” session or a later one, the client can enter STUDENT: “Well, I was conscious of into a trance. However, the fractional everything that you were saying.” relaxation method, which means relaxing parts of the body by using the mind, is BOYNE: “Let's check it out. How many useful, only as an additional induction. It is think this lady went into a trance up here? not nearly as useful as some would have you Raise your hand.” believe. The analytic type of person, or the STUDENT: “Marlene I think you were nervous type of person, will not respond to a in a trance because your eyelids were fractional relaxation. Another way we can fluttering and twitching and you were approach the nervous system is to overload responding to his suggestions.” it and we are going to demonstrate these principles in this class. BOYNE: “Next person.” STUDENT: “Marlene, I think you were PRIMARY CHARACTERISTICS OF in hypnosis because of the eye fluttering and TRANCE because your breathing began to get deeper.” The primary identifying characteristic of SUBJECT: “When you said to go deeper trance is that the subject develops an in sleep, I felt my chest expand.” extraordinary quality of mental, physical and STUDENT: “Marlene, I believe you emotional relaxation. This extraordinary were in a trance because I don't think you quality of relaxation is so unusual that you would have ever fallen against Gil or fallen will hear people say, “I've never felt so on the floor, in front of a group of people.” relaxed in all my life,” after they have been SUBJECT: “That's right, I wouldn't have in a trance. People who are hypertensive and done that.” those whose blood pressure levels are high, go into trance for the first time and say “Oh, that's fantastic.” HOW HYPNOSIS ACHIEVES ITS EFFECT I use the word “extraordinary,” because it is greater and more profound than any It is the response of the central nervous kind of relaxation you can get from any pills system that creates trance. Therefore, the you can take. central nervous system is the instrument that we must use in creating trance. This extraordinary quality of mental, physical and emotional relaxation begins to trigger a therapeutic response throughout the PAVING THE WAY FOR SUCCESS body. Simply entering trance on a regular FUL INDUCTION OF TRANCE basis reduces tension levels which reduces anxiety levels. People who have been having 1. Exciting the Imagination! trouble sleeping, begin to sleep better, they feel better, they awaken with more energy. Your success as a Hypnotherapist will be Their mental attitude has changed simply by in direct proportion to the degree that you experiencing trance. can learn to excite the imagination! This is why stage hypnotists are so much more The Instantaneous Induction gives you successful in creating trances than clinical so much more potential for successful therapists who think that their degrees will interaction with the client, it “overloads” or excite the client's imagination. “shocks” the nervous system. Think about how I have excited your There are only five principles involved imagination. in any . These are as follows: It began when HYPNOTHERAPY INVOLVES TWO you first heard 1. The use of a LEVELS OF MIND IN SIMULTANEOUS about me and my startling reputation. command. This OPERATION - THE OBJECTIVE MIND Everything since means, over AND THE SUBJECTIVE MIND. then - the literature loading the that you received - nervous system - your arrival here - and everything I have e.g. to pull the subject forward and shout done since then has been to excite your “SLEEP!” is an example of a “startling imagination. command.” You may not yet have all the tools and

2. Loss of equilibrium. A. partial loss; B. all the equipment that I use to excite the complete loss or surrender of imagination - but you can learn ways of equilibrium. doing so.

3. Misdirection. A. physical misdirection; What happens after you complete these and B. mental misdirection. courses and the subject of hypnotism comes 4. 4. Mental confusion. up in a social setting, and you inform someone, “I am a certified Hypnotherapist.” 5. 5. Relaxation. When they ask, “Do you think you could Every hypnotic induction utilizes one or hypnotize me?” you're sure to fail if you more of those psychological principles. In reply, “Gee, I don't know. I just finished my the rapid inductions you have seen here, you courses, but I'll try to do it.” can now identify two principles in operation. Here's how to proceed. The “Startling command” and “A loss of equilibrium.” “Do you think you could hypnotize me?” There are two important steps to prepare “Of course I can - are you ready? Stand the subject and pave the way for successful up, right now. Pull your feet together, follow induction of trance: my instructions.” You have excited their imagination. You said, “I'm going to do it to you right now!” If sleep. You were perfectly safe but your brain they had any uncertainty - its gone! and nervous system responded to the mental image, and made it a reality for you. Many hypnotists unthinkingly repeat a statement which is always a mistake: “All Images are always reality to your brain hypnosis is self-hypnosis.” and nervous system and that is what “worry” really is. When you imagine what you don't “Hypnosis can be induced externally and want, you set into action, forces known and internally,” is a true statement. “All hypnosis unknown, that bring to you that which you is self-hypnosis” is a false statement. If it fear. were literally true, why would a person need to come to a hypnotist if they can hypnotize In the Old Testament when Job said, themselves? This also implies that all “The things that I have feared have come hypnotherapy is self-hypnotherapy. upon me,” he recognized a great psychological truth. Hypnotherapy involves two levels of mind in simultaneous operation - the FEAR OF FAILURE. When the image is objective mind and the subjective mind. The only what we don't want, we keep working intellectual, rational, analytic mind and the to bring it into our life. If the fear is of feeling mind. They can't be fully interactive failure, then not only do we choose activities and operative in one person at one and the and behaviors that are highly likely to same time. That doesn't mean that you can't produce failure such as inadequate engage in self therapy - it just means that preparation and inadequate financing but if you can't do the kind of powerfully effective we don't fail quickly enough, we take care of work that a highly skilled, well trained it by self-sabotage. Hypnotherapist can do with you. I have had clients come to me over and over again with the same script: “Every time 2. Developing Mental Expectancy! I get close to a success, I seem to do something to destroy it.” Here is the rule: FEAR OF REJECTION. Those who fear “What is expected has a powerful rejection develop lifestyles guaranteed to tendency to be realized.” produce rejection, and just in case they don't This brings us to the “Placebo” principle get rejected quickly enough they have a - what is expected tends to be realized, game which goes - “I'll reject you before you because your brain and nervous system can reject me.” cannot tell the difference - it has no ability to This principle of mental expectancy is in discriminate whether the imagery is coming operation when you're dreaming and when from “out there” or “inside.” you're worrying, and positive visualization is If you are sound asleep at night and safe another form of mental programming. The in bed, doors and windows all locked, and purpose of creative visualization is to you have a dream that you are drowning and generate a positive, feeling response. cry out in your sleep - “Save me! Save me!” I have read metaphysical books that state When you wake up your heart is pounding that all you have to do to increase your and you have a choking sensation - it takes prosperity, is to imagine clouds of hundred twenty to thirty minutes to get back to dollar bills floating down from the great normal and another hour to get back to source of abundance and stacking up in your remember that you can acquire all of the hands. I can tell you that you can spend the knowledge and all of the skill that you need rest of your life visualizing that scene and it to reach your goals and to realize your won't bring one cent into your life. highest potential - while you continue your movement toward them. THE FOUR STAGES OF This is a dynamic universe, and PROGRAMMING everything is rushing through space at tremendous speed - including this planet. Visualization is a powerful tool but it is Movement is the key, but you must start only one step in a larger process of where you are with what you have. demonstration. The process begins with programming which consists of four sepa- rate stages. OVERCOMING THE FEAR OF We begin by programming the non- POVERTY critical, non-analytical subconscious mind Here's how you start. Take fifteen with series or chains of closely related ideas. percent of your gross income and put it into When these ideas develop sufficient strength an account and use the money for only one and intensity they merge together to form purpose. Not for a vacation or repairing your concepts. Stage One is CONCEPTUALIZE. car or even for buying a new car. It is to be used only for “building your estate.” As the concepts grow in number and strength they flow together to form We are blind to money making ATTITUDES. When these attitudes gain opportunities until we have reached the first sufficient emotional intensity they stimulate level which is focusing upon opportunities the production of visual imagery. Stage Two to generate investment income. While we is VISUALIZE. are still working for service income (what you get for what you do), we can only earn The primary purposes of imagery are to as much as we can work. As soon as you excite the imagination and generate have five thousand dollars available for powerful feelings of desire. Many writers investment, opportunities will begin to open tell us that we must create a powerful desire, up all around you. You cannot see an but they don't tell us how to create a desire. investment opportunity until you have a sum It can only be done through some form of of money ready to invest, and you can save programming and the use of creative that money from your service income. Only imagery. The third stage is you can control the quality and extent of EMOTIONALIZE. your service. When your desire grows strong enough At the age of sixteen, I walked out of the you begin to take action, and what had ghetto, and I said “I am going to become a seemed difficult or impossible now becomes millionaire doing what I like to do. I'm going easy, because you have changed fear into to teach people and help them to help desire. The fourth stage is AC`TUALIZE. themselves and then I'm going to teach Programming develops concepts which others to do the same.” I first outlined my develop visual imagery which creates desire People-Helping career at ten years of age. which stimulates action. Here is a great psychic secret. In the When you feel reluctant to take action, book of Daniel we're told, “As ye sleep - while your head is on the pillow - he that are within you and that is God's gift to you. revealed all things shall make all secrets known unto you.” “THE AUTHORITY OF PERSONAL I read that verse one night when I was at APPEARANCE” a critical point - I had just been offered a For many years, I adopted a very casual very good job with an auction firm. The style of dress, “the Southern California owner had told me that I could become a look.” Then I began to travel the world and great auctioneer and that he would start me when I gave seminars in England, in Ireland at twenty-five thousand dollars plus and in Australia, I discovered that in commission. I had to make a decision Southern California we dress very because that was a lot of money back then, differently from the rest of the world. I twenty-five years ago. When I read DANIEL began to develop a more professional that night I went to bed and I asked my manner and a professional appearance. The subconscious, “Why am I doing what I am answer is a simple one, - think first about doing and is it the right thing for me to do?” your appearance. It's a powerful way to I got the answer in a dream: I was in a instantly open up the subconscious of Catholic school in the ghetto and when the another person by creating “authority” teacher asked for someone to read aloud I through your style of dress. would raise my hand. Classmates would tease me about my reading aloud and say that they didn't like to do it but I would reply that there were good ideas in books and that “THE AUTHORITY OF PERSONAL one day I would earn my living from ideas. EXPRESSION” The next part of the dream took place We do have classes in America, whether when I lived in a flat over a comer grocery we care to admit it or not. Our classes are store. There was a big metal-lined bread box not designed by artificial rank; we have no on the comer and about four in the morning lords and ladies, no princes, queens or kings. a bakery truck would come by and the driver In our society our classes are designated first would unlock the box, dump the fresh bread by speech and education, second by money, in and lock it up again. I was sitting on top and third by much more money. of that box with another boy who asked, When a person opens his mouth to speak “Why do you always want to read to the in the United States, he tells all within class?” and I said that some day I was going earshot the class in which he resides. There to teach others and help them. I had long is uneducated speech and there is educated since forgotten these things at a conscious speech, and everybody knows the difference. level but they were true memories and they We may dress beautifully and drive up in an came back to me in my dream. When I expensive car, but if we get out and ask, awakened I sat up and said “That's my “Where's the doorman at?” we have, with answer. I am here because I planned to be that simple, innocuous preposition, exposed and this is where I want to be.” and I called ourselves to any discerning person in the the man and said that I wasn't going to take immediate area. the auctioneer's job. Trust your subconscious mind to give you an answer and it always The person with lower-class speech is will, for you can discover that those answers usually completely unaware of his problem. But there will be a sizable and enjoyable use of “verbal contaminations.” world into which he will be forever barred How many of us use phrases like, from entering. It isn't snobbery; it's simply a “Y'know” or “Awright”? Far more matter of not fitting in. Poor speech cannot frequently than we realize. How often do we be hidden away. use “like”; or “such”; or O.K. or those many Anyone can learn to speak the English cliches that are teenage jargon. Once we are language properly. It's difficult when one's past seventeen, we just can't talk that way as parents, neighbors, brothers, sisters, and a professional person. friends all murder the language, but it's still When your speech is full of quite possible. It's a matter of education and contaminations and if you don't focus on of of paying attention in English class, no them, you are going to use them in every matter how poorly it may be taught. situation. I once worked with a young Learning to speak and write our beautiful actress who complained that although she language - the world's largest and most had many auditions she just couldn't seem to interesting - does not require a special talent, get an acting job. She felt that with all of her like playing the clarinet or drawing. It's a training she was very talented, but she still matter of desire plus reading and study. worked as a waitress at the Beverly Hills There is no more important subject taught in Country Club. I listened to her and she had school. In fact, it is the key to all the other many speech contaminations. I began by subjects as well as to a whole world of saying “Every time you say 'You know' or interest and opportunity. It is the first step up 'like'; I'm going to raise my hand.” The first to that higher, cleaner plateau where the air dozen times I raised my hand, she laughed, is fresher and the view much better. An hour but after that, when I'd raise my hand she'd a day of serious reading and study will say, “Stop it! I didn't say it!” I would ask, handle the matter. And as you read, write. “Why do you think I'm raising my hand - Copy long paragraphs so that you learn how just for exercise?” She said, “You're putting words are properly strung together by ac- me on.” She began to get upset because even complished writers. though she was constantly using these cliches she couldn't hear herself using them. The book I most frequently recommend to those who care to brush up on their speech and writing is The Elements of Style COMMUNICATION IS SIMPLE by William Strunk, Jr., and the late E.B. On the other hand I'm presently working White. It's a MacMillan paperback that will with a very talented young man, whom I fit in your pocket or purse. Another trained some years ago. He has a brilliant enjoyable book from which you can learn a career opening up for him now. He suffers great deal about good writing is The Careful from what I call the “Kingfish phenom- Writer by the late Theodore M. Bernstein, enon.” If you remember Amos and Andy published by Atheneum. you'll know who the “Kingfish” was. He was the character who was always using words SPEAK AS AN ADULT he didn't understand and trying to sound as though he was very intelligent. He always Most people have no idea how they used six words where two would do and sound. Not only in the pitch or tone or that's what this man does, in his writing and frequency of the voice, but especially, the his speaking. It was a difficult habit to break because he didn't realize his fear, “that sure who it was, but I had better make some people might think him dumb” - so his acknowledgment. overcompensation was a cascade of Chimpanzees can do better than that! polysyllabic words that seemed to him to be They have greater expression when they educated words. But, when speaking and make contact with each other. There are communicating - especially as a therapist, many forms of “sub-human” expression. there is a principle called K.I.S.S. which There's not much you can do with those means, Keep it Simple, Sweetheart! people, except keep doing what you are We respond best to words we know best, doing. “Good morning. How are you words that we learned at an early age and today?” Fortunately not everyone is that that we experienced most often. The more way. There are enough people who are often a word has caused a response in us the aware of their obligation to respond in kind. more energy it has to generate an even The person who grunts and nods has no stronger response. awareness of social responsibilities, and because of that you Focus on your don't really need appearance, listen to YOU ARE GOING TO BEGIN TO much social your speech ATTRACT PEOPLE TO YOU AND THEY interaction with patterns, use your them because you're cassette player, WON'T EVEN KNOW WHY THEY ARE going to be “short- record your voice BEING ATTRACTED. IT'S BECAUSE changed” in every when you sit and transaction with talk to your mate, or THEY FEEL GOOD EVERY TIME THEY them. If they short your friends. Listen SEE YOU AND THEY KNOW THAT THE change you in the to yourself later and greeting, what will you'll discover how ENERGY WITHIN THEM IS GOING TO they do in a you sound. Do it SURGE UPWARD. meaningful regularly and you exchange? will decontaminate your speech. The next level is just slightly above the BECOMING A SOURCE OF ENERGY animals. Those who reply, “O.K.” What does “O.K.” mean? It means “not so bad” or You've got to change not just the way “not so hot” - I didn't ask how they were not. you look, and the way you sound, but what you are saying. Once you do that, you will Now we come to those who give you one start being seen in a new way. The greeting word as a reply. “How are you today?” ritual is one of the basic repetitive ways that “Fine.” It means, “I have to say something we make contact with others. “Hello, how so I'll get it over with as quick as I can, with are you today?” the least expression I can, because they asked me. Let's examine the variety of ways that people respond to this ritual. Some people Then there's the opposite type. These respond in a “subhuman” manner. They people, when you ask how they are, hear it don't greet each other with words, they just as an invitation to discuss with you the state nod when walking along the hall. One goes, of their mental, physical, emotional health “Huh,” and the other goes “H-m!” That problems. means, “Something just went by me, I'm not “Good morning, how are you today?” expectantly so that they know you are waiting for their response. You are going to “Terrible, all my sinus cavities are look at them and wait for a reply and if they blocked. I had a fight with my wife before I keep walking you are going to stop. left this morning and on the way here some idiot bashed my fender.” You are stuck with There is a percentage of people who his long story. By the way, unless it's your have enough social responsibility and employer or someone you don't want to enough awareness to respond by saying, “I offend, if you are standing and listening to am 'whatever”' but half of them won't ask that long story without finding a way to get you how you are. They are people who have away quickly, it usually means that you are difficulty relating straight across to anyone. on the same frequency. You are just waiting Their view of the world is “you are either for them to get through so that you can above me or beneath me.” By only telling dump your psychic garbage right back on you how they are, and by not asking back them. “Well, you think you've got troubles - they have said, “See, you are lower than I listen to what happened to me.” You should am. You feel a need to ask me but I am not not be interested in their tales of woe. If you going to ask you.” If they do not ask you, start cutting it short by saying “That's too they feel “one-up.” “I expect you to ask me, bad, I've got to rush maybe they'll get the but I'm not going to ask you because I really message that those things are not to be don't care.” shared with others, unless they are people Finally we get down to that percentage who have a reason to be interested. of people who will say, “I'm fine and how I am going to give you an assignment are you?” Smile again, increase your and if you do it often enough, it will become volume” and your answer is “I'm won- a habit, and if you will make it part of your derful, thank you.” life you will begin to transform yourself. As you see someone coming towards Many will find this difficult at first you, do the following things. First – Initiate! because it is a change and we are reluctant to - don't wait for them to start. Remember, initiate and maintain change. We feel “My world begins with me and my action.” strange doing something new. For those of Don't wait for them to take an action so that you who have a fear of criticism, the thought you can respond. As soon as you get within may come, “What will they think of me. earshot reach out so that you can make They may think that I am some kind of freak contact with them. saying 'wonderful' like one of these positive- As they are coming towards you put a thinking crazies.” pleasant look on your face, even when you Some people may even stop talking to are feeling unpleasant. We can still smile you, and that can be a blessing. The ones even if we don't feel very happy. A smile who want you to stand there while they could indicate internal feeling or it could be dump on you will begin to detour around a ritual, and no one stops to figure it out. A you, they'll even say to others, “I can't stand smile is always seen as a good sign. talking to him, I don't know what got into You are going to smile and then say, him but all he wants to do is to give out that “Good morning. How are you today?” Make “positive stuff.” eye contact, hold the smile and stay poised A few years ago, a woman started a self- hypnosis class and was thrilled and delighted She gave me various weak and irrational with it. The next week after class she came excuses so I said, to me and said, “I have this friend who is so “If you are depressed I don't understand terribly depressed, she won't even think why you didn't come back here - where will about coming here. I've tried to get her to you go? Will you start looking in the come here, but she said 'Oh, no. It wouldn't newspapers for funerals to attend? There is help me' and finally she said, 'I don't have something that you are not saying and I'd any money.”' like you to say it to me.” I stung her and Finally, the student told me that if I were made her angry enough to reply, “The reason to telephone her friend, she thought that I I am not coming back to that place is every could persuade her. I told her that time I open my mouth there is one of those Professionals don't call people and solicit people, trying to shove that positive thinking them as clients. junk right down my throat.” Then she hung up on me. She replied, “Oh, she's been in such a terrible depression for so long and I don't There are others who will stop talking to know what's happening, so couldn't you, you because you've become very “up,” and please.” So, I made a mistake, I surrendered that's a blessing because you don't have to and said, cope with them any more. It is a process of selection that I am talking about. You are “I'll call her tomorrow.” going to begin to attract people to you and I called the woman and after some they won't even know why they are being at- conversation in which I challenged her tracted. It's because they feel good every irrational objections, she came up with the time they see you and they know that the “money” objection which I handled this energy within them is going to surge way. I said, “Look, I'm not concerned about upward. There is a good feeling that they the money. I'm concerned about you getting will experience each time they see you, after the help, so you just come in and whenever you have made enough processing contacts you have the money - whether it's this year with them. or next year or if you want to make small Everyone in class has to agree that in the payments, that's all right and if you never next week, they will practice this, especially pay me, it doesn't make a bit of difference.” with strangers, in the supermarket or She replied that she couldn't stand the anywhere. Here are some of the results that thought of having a debt, but I persisted and are reported: one woman said that she went finally she agreed to come to class. to work on Monday and to the very first There were a few repeaters in the class person she saw, she said, who had become very positive people. As “Good morning and how are you?” they arrived early, I told them that there was a lady starting that night, who had been very He said, “OK and you?” depressed and I knew that they could help She said, “I'm wonderful.” her. The lady arrived and began class but she didn't show up the following week. I was This man put his hands on his hips and concerned because we had really tried to said, “You just ruined my whole day.” work with her without very much success. I Another girl said that when she met a called her to ask why she hadn't come back. couple of other girls in her department, they asked how she was, she said, accumulation of intellectual knowledge. Intuition is a mystical process, for we cannot “I'm wonderful.” “know” what we are capable of being since A little while later two of them came our potential constantly expands as we move over and said, “How about having lunch towards it. with us today?” Our potential is not limited to our She said, “I'd like that!” mortality! After I'm gone there are many They went in to the cafeteria and as soon people whose lives have been transformed as they sat down, one of the girls said to her, because of their experiences with me. Clients and people like you who have “All right, tell us about the new guy you changed careers and have become met over the weekend.” successful, happy and fulfilled. The work that they do contains a part of my energy and WHY YOU ARE WONDERFUL it is radiating out to all of the universe, and that will continue generation after I need to tell you why you're wonderful, generation. I am immort4 because I am total so that you will understand. Of all the energy and I decide how I will direct my creatures on this planet, you are the only one energy. that has self-awareness. That means, “I am, and I know that I am.” This awareness is The major question is; how do we bridge infinite in nature because I constantly this great gap between our awareness of the discover more about myself. This awareness lesser self and our longing for the realization of “I am” has no limits - it is infinite in of the greater self. The bridge which allows nature and it is truly wonderful. us to move from one perception to the other is called, “the imagination.” It is what we We experience desires beyond the imagine we are capable of doing at any biologically programmed desires for food, given time. We can experience desire, and shelter and procreation. We experience a that desire is infinite in nature, and is truly desire to be all that we can be, even when “Wonderful.” we have yet to realize much of our desire. We all have those mornings when we Our “imagination” is the “plan-making awaken to feel a quickening of energy within department.” We can take an old idea and us and on those days we measure the lesser modify it, shape it, merge it with other ideas self - what we have been until then - against and create totally new ideas. the greater self and our unrealized potential There are times when I'm teaching and which we intuitively perceive. something new comes up from the “creative A pig always behaves as a pig and we void” and I say to myself, “What a beautiful never harness a pig to a plough - we get a thought.” Something totally unique, original horse for that. Nor do we expect a horse to and creative just emerged. My imagination catch mice - we use a cat. Only human created it, and my imagination has no limits beings can go beyond programmed animal on it and neither does yours. It is infinite in instincts and realize a potential which we nature and truly wonderful. intuitively perceive. Let's talk about qualities that we express “Intuitive” means “knowing without through these faculties. I have a faculty that I previous knowledge,” or without the can program which means “to educate” - to accumulate knowledge and then to use it self-hatred, just ask yourself, “Who in this creatively. The creative expression of that world would I treat as meanly as I treat knowledge is called, “wisdom.” Wise myself?” behavior means a satisfying, fulfilling, I've given just a few illustrations of why productive life. you are wonderful, but you don't need to If you are not expressing enough explain when you say, “I'm wonderful, thank wisdom, if your behavior is not “wise” you.” The explanation I've just given was for enough, appropriate enough, satisfying you, not for others. enough, it doesn't mean that you are inca- It is for you to know that you are pable of it. It just means that you are not wonderful twenty four hours a day. You are doing it, or that you won't do it. You are not the state of your bank account. You are caught up in a delusion that you can't do it, not the quarrels you have with loved ones. but remember your ability to express You are not the dented fender on your wisdom is infinite in nature and truly automobile. You are not the belly-ache; you wonderful. are not even the cancer, you are none of Many people come to me and say that those things, for you are triumphant, there is no joy in their life. If a person is not universal spirit, an expression of God on this experiencing and expressing joy, it doesn't planet and that's truly wonderful. mean that they live in a joyless universe. It Now that you know why you are simply means that they are not open to it and wonderful you can let the world know how they are unwilling to experience it and you are. “I am wonderful, thank you!” express it.

“THE UNSPEAKABLE TRUTH” Now we come to “the unspeakable truth.” The vicious, destructive belief that people hold about themselves. “I am unlovable!” If there is not enough love nourishing you and if you feel incapable of expressing enough love, that does not mean that love is not available to you. It means that you remain closed to it, you remain a bottomless pit and no matter how much love is ex- pressed to you, it won't nourish you. Although love is available in infinite abundance, we attempt to counteract it with our infinite capacity for self-hatred. Psychologists call it “alienation from the self” but if you doubt that you suffer from THE GIL BOYNE METHOD OF SELF-HYPNOSIS CONDITIONING

You are about to enjoy a very pleasant eyelids. and a very beneficial experience. Now, I want you to mentally picture and First, be sure that you will not be imagine that you are looking at the muscles disturbed. in the tips of the toes of your left foot. In your imagination, follow those muscles as Second, remove your shoes or any they move back into the ball of the foot. apparel that will interfere with your physical Back into the arch, and all the way back into comfort in any way. the heel. Now, turn all those muscles loose. Third, now stretch out on your back, Let them grow limp and lazy, just like a with your legs separated, so that no part of handful of loose rubber bands. your calves or thighs are touching. Keep feet Now, as the muscles begin to relax, just separated at least 8 to 10 inches; arms let your mind relax, too. Let your mind drift extended loosely and limply alongside your where it will. Let your mind drift off to body, palms facing downward and fingers pleasant scenes in your imagination. limply outstretched. And now, let the relaxation move on up, Once we begin, you can help by into the ankle now. From the ankle, all the remaining quiet and passive. Our first goal is way up to the left knee. The calf muscles for you to become unaware of your body. begin to grow loose and limp heavy, and so You can best achieve that goal by avoiding relaxed. movement. All of your tensions are fading away. The first thing that I want you to do is to You're relaxing more with each easy breath fix your eyes at a spot on the ceiling that you take. Begin breathing more deeply, overhead. Pick out an imaginary spot, and now, just as you breathe each night, when stare at that spot without moving a muscle. you are deep and sound in slumber. Just Now, take a deep breath and fill up your imagine that you can see your breath as a lungs. Exhale slowly. SLEEP NOW. white mist, coming from your nostrils. Each Now, take a second and even deeper and every time that you exhale this white breath. Take in all of the air that your lungs mist, you are freeing yourself of tension, and can hold. Exhale slowly. SLEEP NOW. going deeper, deeper into drowsy relaxation. Now, let your eyelids close down. Now, Now, from the knee, all the way to the your eyelids are closed down. Please leave left hip, the long thigh muscles are turning them closed down until I ask you to open loose, easing off, and just relaxing now. them again. You will always be able to open Now, as those muscles relax, just let go a your eyes, unless I were to give you a direct little more, and gently, calmly, easily, drift command and tell you that your eyelids are on over, into a pleasant state of easy locked closed. And I don't intend to do that. relaxation. Hypnosis is a state of mind, not a state of Now let the wave of relaxation that started from the toes of your left foot just a Each muscle and nerve along the spine lets few seconds ago - let it move over now into loose the tensions, relaxing, you're drifting the toes of the right foot, back into the arch, down. Deeper and deeper in sleep. Down and all the way back to the heel. Turn all of deeper in drowsy slumber. those muscles loose, and go deeper and And the wave of relaxation spreads out deeper in relaxation. into the broad muscles of the back. All Into the ankle, the muscles let go. From across the small of the back. All across the the ankle, all the way up to the right knee. back of the shoulders. Turn loose every The calf muscles are turning loose and muscle and every nerve in the back, and go letting go. deeper and deeper in sleep. You're relaxing more with each easy Into the shoulders, the muscles let go. breath that you take. With each sound that From the shoulders, down to the elbows of you hear. Each sound carries you deeper, both arms. The upper arm muscles are deeper and sounder in sleep. turning loose, casing off, and just relaxing now. From the knee, all the way up to the right hip. The long thigh muscles grow limp and From the elbows, down to the wrists on lazy. Now, as those muscles relax, just go all both arms, the forearm muscles grow limp the way down, deeper and deeper in drowsy and lazy. slumber. From the wrists to the fingertips of both Turn them all loose and - go deeper in hands, each muscle and nerve lets loose the sleep. tensions, relaxing, you're drifting down. Deeper and deeper in sleep. Now, the wave of relaxation moves on up, into the stomach now. Into the solar Into the jaws, the muscles relax. The plexus, the center of nervous energy. Each jaws are parting slightly, teeth not quite muscle and nerve lets loose the tensions, touching. All around the mouth, the muscles relaxing. You're drifting down, deeper and let go. deeper in sleep. Down, deeper in slumber. Up through the nose, each nerve gives Up through the ribs, the muscles relax. way. All around the eyes, the muscles are Into the broad muscles of the chest. The heavy, and so - relaxed. Even your eyebrows muscles of the chest grow limp and loose, are relaxing now. Across the forehead, the and so relaxed. All of your tensions are muscles smooth out. Across the top of the fading away. skull. Down the back of the neck. Down through the temples, back around the cars, You're relaxing now, more with each all of the muscles are loose, and lazy - just easy beat of your heart, and going deeper in like a handful of loose rubber bands. drowsy slumber. And you may feel now, a pleasant Into the neck, the muscles let go. All tingling sensation in the tips of your toes, or around the neck, the muscles relax, just as in your fingertips - a pleasant tingling they relax each night when you are deep and sensation, growing stronger and stronger sound in sleep. Turn them all loose, and go now, as your entire body is being bathed in deeper and deeper in slumber. Now let the the pleasant glow of complete and utter relaxation start down your back. From the relaxation. base of the skull to the base of the spine. Now you are completely relaxed. Each muscle and nerve in your body is loose and limp and relaxed, and you feel good.

TRANCE TERMINATION METHOD Each time that you use this method for easy relaxation, you relax more easily, more quickly, and more deeply. Relaxation is a skill that you are easily developing with trance. Now, I'm going to count from one to five, and then I'll say, “Fully aware.” At the count of five, your eyes are open, and you are then fully aware, feeling calm, rested, refreshed, relaxed. All right. One: slowly, calmly, easily you're returning to your full awareness once again. Two: each muscle and nerve in your body is loose and limp and relaxed, and you feel wonderfully good. Three: from head to toe, you are feeling perfect in every way. Physically perfect, mentally perfect, emotionally calm and serene. On number four, your eyes begin to feel sparkling clear. On the next number I count, eyelids open, fully aware, feeling calm, rested, refreshed, relaxed, invigorated, full of energy. Number five: you're fully aware now. Eyelids open. Take a good, deep breath, f ill up your lungs, and stretch. RULES OF THE MIND

RULE NUMBER ONE mental expectancy that something terrible Every Thought or Idea Causes a Physical will happen to them. On the other hand, we Reaction. all know people who seem to have the “Magic” touch. Life seems to shower them Your thoughts can affect all of the with blessings for no apparent reason, and so functions of your body. Worry thoughts we call them “Lucky.” What seems to be trigger changes in the stomach that in time luck is in reality, Positive Mental can lead to ulcers. Anger thoughts stimulate Expectancy, a strong belief that they deserve your adrenal glands and the increased to be successful. “We Become What We adrenaline in the blood stream causes body Think About.” changes. Anxiety and fear affect your pulse rate. Our physical health is largely dependent upon our mental expectancy. Physicians Ideas that have a strong emotional recognize that if a patient expects to remain content almost always reach the sick, lame, paralyzed, helpless, even to die, subconscious mind, because it is the feeling the expected condition tends to be realized. mind. Once accepted these ideas continue to Here is where Self-hypnosis can become the produce the same body reaction over and tool to remove despondency and negative over again. In order to eliminate or change attitudes and bring about a hopeful positive chronic negative bodily reactions we must expectancy - the expectancy of health, reach the subconscious mind and change the strength and well-being, which then tends to idea responsible for the reaction. This is be realized. easily done with self-hypnosis and auto- suggestion. RULE NUMBER THREE Imagination Is More Powerful Than RULE NUMBER TWO Knowledge When Dealing With Your What is Expected Tends to be Realized. Own Mind Or The Mind Of Another. The brain and the nervous system This is an important rule to remember respond only to mental images. It does not when using Self-hypnosis. Reason is easily matter if the image is self-induced or from overruled by imagination. This is why some the external world. The mental image persons blindly rush into some unreasonable formed becomes the blueprint, and the act or situation. Violent crimes based upon subconscious mind uses every means at its jealousy are almost always caused by an disposal to carry out the plan. Worrying is a over-active imagination. Most of us feel form of programming a picture of what we superior to those who lose their savings to don't want, but the subconscious mind acts confidence men, or blindly follow a to fulfill the pictured situation. “The Things demagogue such as Hitler or are sold That I Have Feared Have Come Upon worthless stocks. We can easily see that such Me.” people have allowed their imagination to Many persons suffer from chronic overcome their reason. But we are often anxiety, which is simply a subconscious blind to our own superstitions, prejudices, and unreasonable beliefs. Any idea accom- begin by changing our thoughts. We accept panied by a strong emotion such as anger, as true certain facts. For example, we accept hatred, love, or our political and religious as true that the sun rises in the east and sets beliefs usually cannot be modified through in the west and we accept this even though the use of reason. In using Self-Hypnosis we the day may be cloudy and we cannot see the can form images in the subconscious mind sun. This is an instance of a correct fact which is the feeling mind, and can remove, conception which governs our actions under alter or amend the old ideas. normal conditions. However, we have many thought habits which are not correct and yet, are fixed in the mind. Some people believe RULE NUMBER FOUR Opposing Ideas that at critical times they must have a drink Cannot Be Held At One And The Same of whisky or a tranquilizer to steady their Time. nerves so that they can perform effectively. This does not mean more than one idea This is not correct but the idea is there, and cannot be remembered or harbored in your is a fixed habit of thought. There will be memory, but it refers to the conscious mind opposition to replacing it with a correct idea. recognizing an idea. Many people try to hold Now in advancing these rules, we are opposing ideas simultaneously. A man speaking of fixed ideas, not just idle might believe in honesty and expect his thoughts or passing fancies. We need to alter children to be honest, and all the while be fixed ideas or to use them. No matter how engaging daily in slightly dishonest, fixed the ideas may be or how long they business practices. He may try to justify by have remained they can be changed with saying: “All of my competitors do it, it's an Self-hypnosis and auto-suggestion. accepted practice.” However, he cannot escape the conflict and its effect upon his nervous system that is caused by trying to RULE NUMBER SIX An Emotionally hold opposing ideas. Induced Symptom Tends To Cause Organic Change If Persisted In Long Enough. RULE NUMBER FIVE Once An Idea Has Been Accepted It has been acknowledged by many By The Subconscious Mind, It Remains reputable medical men that more than Until It Is Replaced By Another Idea. The seventy percent of human ailments are companion rule to this is The Longer The functional rather than organic. This means Idea Remains, The More Opposition that the function of an organ or other part of There Is To Replacing It With A New the body has been disturbed by the reaction Idea. of the nervous system to negative ideas held in the subconscious mind. We do not mean Once an idea has been accepted, it tends to imply that every person who complains of to remain. The longer it is held, the more it an ailment is emotionally ill or neurotic. tends to become a fixed habit of thinking. There are diseases caused by germs, This is how habits of action are formed, both parasites, virus, and other things attacking good and bad. First there is the thought and the human body. However, we are a mind in then the action. We have habits of thinking a body and the two cannot be separated. as well as habits of action, but the thought or Therefore, if you continue to fear ill health, idea always comes first. Hence it is obvious constantly talk about your “nervous if we wish to change our actions we must stomach” or “tension headaches,” in time organic changes must occur.

RULE NUMBER SEVEN Each Suggestion Acted Upon Creates Less Opposition To Successive Suggestion. A mental trend is easier to follow the longer it lasts unbroken. Once a habit is formed it becomes easier to follow and more difficult to break. In other words once a self-suggestion has been accepted by your subconscious mind it becomes easier for additional suggestions to be accepted and acted upon. That is why when you are just beginning with Self- hypnosis and auto-suggestion we suggest. - you start with simple suggestions. You can suggest that you feel a tingling sensation or a warm and pleasant feeling. When these have been followed you can move on to more complicated suggestions. You should begin now with the suggestion that you will automatically awaken from Self-hypnosis in ten minutes.

RULE NUMBER EIGHT When Dealing With The Subconscious Mind And Its Functions The Greater The Conscious Effort, The Less The Subconscious Response. This proves why “will-power” doesn't really exist! If you have insomnia you've learned “the harder you try to go to sleep, the more wide awake you become.” The rule is “When dealing with subconscious mind, Take It Easy.” This means you must work to develop a positive mental expectancy that your problem can be and will be solved. As your faith in your subconscious mind increases you learn to “let it happen” rather than trying to “force it to happen.” INDUCTION METHODS, TESTING AND DEEPENING TECHNIQUES

eyelids close down, your two hands begin HANDS CLOSING TOGETHER closing together like this. Closing, closing, closing. INSTRUCTIONS TO HYPNOTIST Although you can do this with the client INSTRUCTIONS TO HYPNOTIST lying on their back with their arms extended Now, when you reach this point where upward toward the ceiling, or standing in you say “your two hands begin closing front of them and with their arms extended together like this, “ you must grasp their toward you, the best position is to have your hands and as you say “closing, closing, client seated in a chair. Stand in front of closing, “ slowly push them together. This is them, about six feet in distance, extend both the “muscle rehearsal” so they know what of your arms out toward them. With the they are expected to do, how they are palms of your hands facing each other, your expected to behave. Then separate their fingers hold together, and your thumbs hands again and say: painting upward, speak to them in this manner: Spoken to Subject Spoken to Subject Just imagine there is a magnet on the palm of each hand which is drawing them in Extend both of your arms out in front of closer, closer, closing and moving in until you like this. Stiffen your arms, lock your your two hands touch. elbows; palms of your hands facing each other. Your thumbs up, your fingers held “All right, when I count from three to together. Now in a moment, I am going to one, close your eyelids down.” bring my fingers in between your two hands. Until I do, I want you to look right here into my eyes. Keep looking at me. Just as soon as INSTRUCTIONS TO HYPNOTIST I bring my index Finger in between your two At this point, position each of your hands, take your eyes from mine and fix hands under each of their hands with your them on my fingertips. Then I will move my index finger pointed outward and as you finger when I do, do not move your eyes. begin to count from three down to one for Keep looking straight ahead between your them to close their eyelids down, you begin hands. All right, now bring your eyes down sweeping your fingers in toward the center here to my fingertips. Now I am going to so that the last thing they see visually are move my finger, and when I do, do not move your hands moving toward each other. You your eyes. Keep looking straight ahead say: between your hands. As I count from three down to one you then close your eyelids down. Now, the very moment that your Spoken to Subject All right, three, two, one, close your you are giving the suggest ion “Your hands eyelids down. Now your hands are closing, are closing, closing, closing, closing and closing, closing, closing, closing, closing, almost touching, “as you see they are just closing, closing and almost touching, closing about to touch, just as they are touching, and almost touching. take your hands, put them on the back of their hands and press them together and say, Picture the magnet in the palm of each “Sleep now.” Pull their hands down into hand. They are closing and moving in, their lap and say, “Lot your head come closing and moving in. They are closing, forward on your chest and continue going closing, closing, closing, closing, closing easily, pleasantly, fully into a wonderfully and moving, moving in and closing, closing, pleasant state of hypnotic relaxation.” Then closing and moving in, moving in and just continue with your suggestion. Now you closing, until your two hands touch. They're may use this as a suggestibility test so that closing and almost touching. Picture the when their hands come together you simply magnets in the palm of each hand as they are say “Open your eyes. Well, you kind of closing, closing and moving in. surprised yourself, didn’t you. Were you surprised to feel your hands closing INSTRUCTIONS TO HYPNOTIST together?” Now watch for the movement. You see Then, be quiet and listen to their their hands coming in closer and closer. feedback. If, however, you are going to Wait until they've covered at least half the bypass the suggestibility test and use it as an distance. Then say this: induction, just at the very instant that their hands close, that is when you say, “Sleep now.” Pull their hands in a slow, steady pull Spoken to Subject or push them down into their lap and if you The moment your two hands touch, a wish, you might want to just put your hand wave of relaxation will move all across your behind their neck and gently pull their head body. The moment you feel your two hands forward. Immediately, check for the touch, every muscle and every nerve in your limpness in their arms and continue with body will completely relax. All right, now your deepening procedures. they are closing, closing almost touching, closing, closing, closing and almost touching, closing and almost touching, DIRECT GAZE INDUCTION closing and almost touching, closing and TECHNIQUE almost touching, now they are touching. Let The next process is the Direct Gaze your head come forward on your chest; let Induction Technique. This is the most your arms drop limply into your lap; let powerful technique of all, and also the most every muscle and every nerve now grow difficult to use because you have to express loose and limp and relaxed and feel good all perfect confidence. If you have any doubt, or over now. hesitation, or fear, it will show in your eyes; the subject will read it and it will inhibit their response. INSTRUCTIONS TO HYPNOTIST Now, you might add one other thing. As INSTRUCTIONS TO HYPNOTIST If the subject is standing, you say to Spoken to Subject them, “Alright, I want you to fix your eyes Relax. Now a third deep breath. right here.” Take the index finger of your right hand and bring it up under your right eye. If they're seated, say exactly the same INSTRUCTIONS TO HYPNOTIST thing. Or it they are lying down on their back an a couch or an a bed, say exactly the Once again, hand up: same thing: Spoken to Subject Spoken to Subject Exhale. Relax. Now I want you to look tight here. Don't INSTRUCTIONS TO HYPNOTIST take your eyes from mine. Don't move or Now raise your hand once again up over speak or nod your head or say “uh-huh” their head, about three feet in front of them, unless I ask you to. I know that you hear and about two feet above their head, with your understand me just as you know it. If you index finger pointing out, just like you shake follow my simple instructions there is your finger at someone; hold it in an nothing in this world that can keep you from upraised position, about a forty-five degree entering into a very deep and pleasant state angle, pointing toward the ceiling. Say to of hypnosis, and doing it in just a fraction of them: a second. Now, take a deep breath and rill up your lungs. Spoken to Subject And now, I'm going to count from five INSTRUCTIONS TO HYPNOTIST down to one. As I do, your eyelids grow As you say this, take a deep breath heavy, droopy, drowsy and sleepy. By the yourself and take your right hand and move time I reach the count of one, they close it in an upward motion in the air. Then say: right down and you go deep in hypnotic slumber. Deeper than ever before. All right, Spoken to Subject Five - Eyelids heavy, droopy, drowsy and sleepy. Four - Those heavy lids feel ready to Now exhale. That's fine. Now a second close. Three - The next time you blink that is and deeper breath. hypnosis coming on you then. Two They begin closing, closing, closing, closing, closing, closing, closing, closing them, close INSTRUCTIONS TO HYPNOTIST them, close them. Now again bring up your hand:

INSTRUCTIONS TO HYPNOTIST Spoken to Subject And at this point, as their eyelids begin Exhale. to flutter and close, you stand with your hand on their shoulder, move it around behind their head with a gentle pressure, say: INSTRUCTIONS TO HYPNOTIST Let your hand come down: with what you see happening with the Spoken to Subject subject. Now the Direct Gaze Technique is the They're closing, closing, closing, closing. most effective because of all of the imagery Sleep now! associated with hypnosis. All of the ideas that the person has learned from movies, INSTRUCTIONS TO HYPNOTIST novels, cartoons, and comic strips show that the hypnotist's eyes have power. It is also in Pull their head forward, say: mythology as the evil eye. On the back of the dollar bill, right above the pyramid an Spoken to Subject the left side, you will see the image of the all-powerful eye or the eye of God. The eye Now just relax and go deeply into traditionally holds great power. So when you hypnosis. Deeper than you have ever been develop your confidence, when you feel before. more certain, when you have achieved a number of successful inductions, then it is INSTRUCTIONS TO HYPNOTIST time to begin with the single most successful induction, that is, the Direct Gaze Process. Go to Trance Termination. When you're looking the subject in the eye, it is important for you not to blink. You WOLBERG ARM LEVITATION can learn the Direct Gaze by practicing in TECHNIQUE the mirror. Learn to narrow your eyes slightly, not enough to look ludicrous or INSTRUCTIONS TO HYPNOTIST funny. but enough to keep your eyeballs from drying out, because that is really what This is the wording and phrasing for the causes blinking. You blink to moisten the arm levitation process. This technique can eyeballs because the fluid keeps evaporating be used as a suggestibility test or as an from them. Now, also, just as in the arm induction. As a suggestibility test, the levitation, time your numbers in response to subject's eyes are open and trance has not what you see happening in the subject's eyes. been induced. As a deepening technique, When you say, “Five - eyelids heavy, hypnosis has already been induced. The droopy, drowsy and sleepy, “you may see subject is either stretched out on their back, that you just don't feel any quality of an a couch or an a bed, or seated in a response. Then stretch out your suggestion a comfortable chair, with their hands an their little bit. You say, “Five - eyelids heavy, thighs, palms facing downward. And you droopy, drowsy and sleepy, your eyelids fee/ begin like this: so heavy. Four - your heavy lids begin to feel as though they're getting ready to close. Spoken To Subject Three - the very next time they blink, that is hypnosis coming on you then.” Now, Focus on your right hand. Note the feel suddenly, you sea them beginning to blink of the fabric your hand is resting on. Now and then you say, “And now they begin note the temperature of your right hand. Is it closing, closing, “and you pick up the hot? Cool? Compare it with your left hand. tempo. Develop your pattern, your tempo, Is your left hand exactly the same, or can you perceive a difference? Now note The feeling is spreading around beneath the whether the palm of your right hand is moist fingernails. Number Three - It is moving up or dry. Compare that to your left hand. Now to the first joint of the fingers. Number Four become aware of the pulse in your right Spreading to the large knuckle across the hand. Focus on the beating of your heart as it back of the hand. Number Five - the first pulses in the hollow at the base of your slight movements begin to start taking place. thumb. Slight movements of the fingers, a twitching of the muscles. I'm going to count from one up to twenty. As I do, a light, easy, pleasant Number Six - The light sensation feeling moves into your right hand and into spreads all across the back of your hand. your right arm. As I continue counting, that Number Seven - Spreading over and into feeling grows stronger and stronger. Soon your thumb. Number Eight - Moving now all you'll feel the first slight movement of your through the palm of your hand. Number Fingers, a twitching of the muscles. Then Nine - The light sensation spreads up and your hand begins to lift. Your arm begins to into your wrist. Think of your left hand now. lift. It continues moving, lifting, and rising You'll see by comparison, your left hand is until it comes to rest upon your body. beginning to feel very, very heavy. While on Number Ten your right hand grows lighter and lighter with each number I count; just as INSTRUCTIONS TO HYPNOTIST light as a feather floating in the breeze and Now, at this point, take hold of the even lighter. As light as a gas-filled balloon. subject's wrist and as you say “Your hand Just as a gas filled balloon will rise and float begins to lift, “slowly begin to lift it. “Your towards the ceiling, in the same way, by the arm begins to lift, “continue lifting it. “Until time I reach the count of twenty, your right it comes to rest upon your body,” move it hand is moving, lifting, rising and floating. over slowly and bring it down to rest upon Number Eleven - The light sensation has their body. That is called a “muscle moved beyond your wrist now, spreading rehearsal.” It lets the subject know exactly into your forearm. Number Twelve, Thirteen what is expected. Then place the hand down - Once again, think of your left hand. Your alongside their body again, with the palm left hand has grown so heavy, it feels as facing downward and the fingers limply though it were made of marble or stone. outstretched. Then take up from where you Number Fourteen - That light sensation is left off. You left off by saying, “Until your spreading up toward your elbow. Now on hand comes to rest upon your body.” Fifteen - From the fingertips all the way up to the elbow your hand has grown light, light Spoken to Subject and free. It's beginning to lift. It's moving, lifting, rising, and floating. Now when you feel the movement in your hand and in your arm, don't try to resist. You could resist if you chose to, that is not INSTRUCTIONS TO HYPNOTIST why you are here. Just let your subconscious Now, at this point, you must gauge your mind do its perfect work. All right, now we suggestion to the kind of movement you are are ready to begin. Number One - The first getting. Sometimes you'll begin to see the light, easy sensation moves into the first twitching movements in the fingers and fingertips of your right hand. Number Two - in the muscles on the third or fourth or fifth number one. The second part of the count. Sometimes you'll have to go to ten or suggestion is “and find them locking tighter twelve or fifteen. If you see that you are not and tighter.“ So it really means, “I want you getting a response, stretch out the to make an unsuccessful effort to open your suggestions between your numbers and eyelids, but I really want you to shut them count more slowly. If, however, they're more tightly closed when you make the responding rapidly, then speed up the tempo effort.” Now, back to the suggestion to the of your counting to keep pace with the speed subject: their arm is lifting. Spoken to Subject Spoken to Subject “All right now, try and satisfy yourself All right, Sixteen - Now your arm is that your eyelids are indeed locked tightly moving and lifting and rising. And as your closed. That's fine. Stop trying. Relax and go arm is lifting, you're going deeper and deeper into hypnosis.” deeper into hypnosis. Seventeen - Your hand continues INSTRUCTIONS TO HYPNOTIST moving, lifting and rising now until it comes to rest over on your body. Eighteen - Now again at this point it is very Moving, lifting, rising, floating. Right on important that you don't try to satisfy over now and when your hand comes to rest yourself. Your purpose is to satisfy the upon your body, at that time your eyelids subject. Don't say, “Try harder, harder than lock tightly closed. Your eyelids lock so that. Oh, surely, you're not trying hard tightly closed at that point, the more you try enough.” All they need to do is either make to open them the tighter they're locking some kind of muscular effort to open the closed. eyelids or allow about three seconds to go by without opening the eyelids. That is Nineteen - Your hand is getting ready to sufficient time to gain the realization that come down and rest upon your body. they did not open their eyelids. Now we'll Twenty - Now your hand has come to rest pyramid and compound into the third upon your body and as it has, at the same suggestion. time, your eyelids are locked so tightly closed, the more you try to open your eyelids the tighter they are locking closed. Spoken to Subject Just relax and go deeper into hypnosis. At the same time, your left arm has become INSTRUCTIONS TO HYPNOTIST so heavy, so heavy that it feels as though it Now be sure to always use this phrasing. were made of marble or stone or lead, and It's called the law of Reverse Mental Effect. far too heavy to lift. In fact, it seems as if The suggestion is, “Try to open your eye- your left arm were no longer under your lids.” That's quite a different suggestion control. In fact, your left arm feels so heavy from, “You cannot open your eyelids,” or that just the thought of it, the thought of “It's impossible to open your eyelids.” The lifting it, seems to be more than you want to word “try” implies failure. So when you say, deal with at this time. So, you may, if you “Try to open your eyelids,“ that's suggestion wish, make an effort to lift your left arm. But you find it just seems more than you not asleep, and yet from the very nature of want to deal with, just seems so heavy and it your experience, you will recognize what seems to weigh a ton. All right, that's fine. hypnosis truly is. Now just, Stop trying. Relax and make no All right now, I'm going to count from further effort. The feeling that you felt as one to Five. At the count of Five, I want you your hand was lifting, that's the feeling of to let your eyelids open, you are then calm, hypnosis. The feeling that you felt that your rested, refreshed, relaxed, and you feel left arm seemed so heavy, that, too, is the wonderfully good. One - Slowly, calmly, feeling of hypnosis. The feeling that you felt easily and gently returning to your full as your eyelids seemed stuck or seemed not awareness once again. Two - Each muscle to want to open, that, too, is the feeling of and nerve in your body is loose and limp and hypnosis. relaxed. You feel good. Three From head to We call these responses the feeling of toe you're feeling perfect in every way. On hypnosis because you realize as well as I do Number Four - Your eyes begin to feel that there is no logical reason for your right sparkling clear, just as though they were arm to feel lighter than your left. There is no bathed in cold spring water. On the next rational reason for your left arm to feel number now, eyelids open, fully aware, heavier than your fight. There is no rational feeling wonderfully good in every way. reason for your eyelids not to open when you Number Five - Eyelids open now. You are wish to open them. You see, the pan of your fully aware once again. Take a good deep mind that processes ideas in terms of reason breath. Fill up your lungs and stretch. and rationality is temporarily relaxed because you are now hypnotized. That means that you can accept ideas INSTRUCTIONS TO HYPNOTIST subconsciously. Even ideas that are different Now wait just a moment for the client to from your previous experiences, and that's orient himself to being up from hypnosis. what makes hypnosis valuable to you. You Then say to him: might compare it to a stereo system. Usually a stereo system has a balance control. If you turn it to the right, you'll only hear the music Spoken to Subject from the right speaker. Now, that doesn't “Well, you kind of surprised mean the left speaker has been disconnected. yourself, didn't you?” It simply means that, for the moment, it is inactive. And in the same way, when that critical factor of your conscious mind that INSTRUCTIONS TO HYPNOTIST processes ideas according to their rationality Usually they'll answer yes. The moment and analyzes them and critically examines they do, say: them, when that relaxes, you can accept and act upon ideas subconsciously. That's the nature of hypnosis. So in a moment when I Spoken to Subject bring you up, you are going to have a much “tell me about it.” clearer understanding of the dual nature of your conscious and subconscious mind - You will now know that you were not INSTRUCTIONS TO HYPNOTIST unconscious, you will know that you were Let them begin to give you the feedback this scene, you are going to portray a person about how they feel about their experience. being hypnotized and going into a trance. If they say, “What do you mean?” or “No, I You are going to act so convincingly that all wasn't surprised,” say: ten million viewers of this program will be Spoken to Subject totally convinced that you have been hypnotized and are in a deep trance. “Tell me how you felt when you felt your arm coming up. What kind of feeling was it when your eyelids didn't seem to want INSTRUCTIONS TO HYPNOTIST to open; how did it feel to you when your left arm seemed so heavy?” By asking the subject to act (pretend), you are by-passing the critical, analytic factor of the conscious mind. The questions INSTRUCTIONS TO HYPNOTIST of “Am I hypnotized?” or “Am I responding?” are set aside. As the subject Now, through the use of these three tests, enters into the process of responding to your you should have secured the convincing of suggestions, they begin to enter into a 'real the conscious mind for a recognition of the trance” without ever being fully aware of it. trance state, so the client can leave your Once you observe the visible, external signs office from that first session, feeling either of trance, you can then begin to test (eye that they were indeed hypnotized or at least catalepsy, etc.). confused - unsure whether or not they were hypnotized. When they go home and someone asks if they were hypnotized, the TECHNIQUE best that they can say is “Yes, I was.” When GIL BOYNE VERSION asked, “How do you know?” They reply, (TWO-FINGER “Because of the way I behaved.” The worst TECHNIQUE) that they can say is, “Well, I'm not quite sure.” And when they describe the behaviors of their arm lifting or their eyelids sticking Spoken to Subject or their left arm feeling heavy, that other For the moment, rest your arms limply person will assure them that they were on your thighs, just like this. Now I want indeed hypnotized. you to look out here at my hand. In a This technique is named Wolberg Arm moment I'm going to bring my hand up in Levitation in honor of Dr. Lewis Wolberg, front of your eyes like this. When I do, I'll medical psychiatrist and famed hypnotism pass my hand down in front of your eyes. pioneer and researcher. Keep your eyes fixed on my fingers. As I pass my hand down, let your eyelids close down. REHEARSAL TECHNIQUE All right, now fix your eyes on my fingers. Now, I'm passing my hand down in Spoken to Subject front of your eyes, and as I do, let your eyelids close down. I want you to imagine that you are an actor/actress appearing in a network television drama showing in prime time. In INSTRUCTIONS TO HYPNOTIST When working with highly analytical or another wave of relaxation from the top of overly tense subjects, the Rehearsal your head to the tip of your toes and double Technique can be used effectively to induce the present level of relaxation. (Drop hand.) a hypnotic trance. That's fine. Spoken to Subject Now, your body is relaxed and I'm going Now your eyelids are closed down. I to show you how to relax your mind. Listen want you to relax every tiny muscle and very carefully. The next time I touch your nerve in and around your eyelids. I want you forehead, I want you to begin counting from to relax them so much that they wouldn't one hundred backward in this way: One work even if you wanted them to. hundred, deeper asleep. Ninety-nine, deeper asleep. Ninety-eight, deeper asleep, and so Now, when you know that you've on. After counting just a few numbers, by relaxed them that much that they wouldn't the time you reach Ninety-seven, or Ninety- work even if you wanted them to, test them; six, or maybe, at the most, Ninety-five, you you'll see you've been completely successful. will find those numbers disappearing. You Now, relax them so much that they wouldn't will find your mind has become so relaxed work even if you wanted them to. Now test that you'll just relax them out of your mind. them; you'll see you've been completely All right, get ready now, three, two, one. successful. (Pause three seconds.) (Tap forehead.) Begin counting. “One All right, that's fine. Now, stop trying hundred, deeper asleep.” GOOD, slow them and just relax and go deeper now. Now, I'm down now. “Ninety-nine, deeper asleep.” going to raise my hand. I will do it by GOOD. “Ninety-eight.” FINE. “Ninety- grasping your right thumb in my Fingers like seven.” Start relaxing them out of your this. (Hold thumb.) As I lift your hand, just mind. “Deeper asleep. Ninety-five, deeper let it hang limply in my fingers. Then, when asleep.” Let them relax out of your mind I drop it, let it drop like a wet, limp rag. right now. “Ninety-four, deeper asleep.” When your hand touches your body, as it Now let them fad away completely. drops, send a wave of relaxation from the That's fine. You've relaxed your body; top of your head all the way down to the tips you've relaxed your mind; you've gone into a of your toes. That will double your present much deeper state of hypnosis. level of relaxation. (Lift hand.) Now, I'm raising your hand. That's it, let it hang limply. That's good. INSTRUCTIONS TO HYPNOTIST Now, when I drop it, let it drop like a limp, Go to Trance Termination. wet rag, and as it touches your body, send a wave of relaxation from the top of your head In summary: pass hand down in front of to the tip of your toes. (Drop hand.) That's eyes (eye closure); relax eyelids (eye good. catalepsy); hands limp, wet rags; numbers disappearing. Now, we'll do that again with the left hand. I'm going to pick up your left hand, and as I take your thumb, let it hang limply VARIATION: FORGETTING - (Lift.) That's good; now you're getting the CREATING PARTIAL AMNESIA idea. When I drop it, let it drop like a limp, wet rag. When it touches your body, send Spoken to Subject (If the client's legs begin to buckle, just Now let's walk down the corridor of as a horse can stand and sleep without losing forgetfulness together. Pull aside the black its balance, so too your legs are strong velvet drape and step through. As we walk beneath you. You can stand and sleep. down the corridor, the number five is fading DEEPENING PHRASES from your memory. Now your name is relaxing out of your awareness. We've come Spoken to Subject to the end of the corridor. Separate the drapes and walk through and you have Turn loose now, relax. Let a good, forgotten, forgotten, forgotten. pleasant feeling come all across your body. Let every muscle and every nerve grow so loose and so limp and so relaxed. Arms limp INDUCTION PHRASES now, just like a rag doll. That's good. Spoken to Subject Now, send a pleasant wave of relaxation Put your right hand on my right hand. over your entire body, from the top of your When I count to three begin pressing down head to the tips of your toes. Just let every harder and harder. One. Two. Three. Your muscle and nerve grow loose and limp and eyelids are growing heavy, droopy, drowsy relaxed. You are feeling more relaxed with and sleepy. Close them and sleep (pull hand each easy breath that you take. away now). Droopy, drowsy and sleepy. So calm and Put your hand on mine. When I count to so relaxed. You're relaxing more with each four, press down as hard as you can. One, easy beat of your heart - with each easy look at me. Two, pressing down harder. breath that you take with each sound that Press it down harder. Three, eyelids heavy, you hear. droopy, drowsy and sleepy. Four, close them and sleep (pull hand away now). (As the trance begins,) Now, when I say POST-HYPNOTIC REINDUCTION the word “sleep,” I am not referring to the CONDITIONING AND DEEPENING sleep you experience at night. Instead, I am referring to this wonderfully pleasant state of Spoken to Subject physical, mental and emotional relaxation that you are experiencing at this very I am going to give you a signal so you moment. can enter into hypnosis more easily. I am going to count from one to three. At the count of three, you will open your eyes, STANDING INDUCTION - RAPID remaining deeply relaxed. When I say INDUCTION “Sleep now” and snap my fingers, that will be the signal for your eyelids to close down Spoken to Subject and you will go deeper into hypnosis. Stand facing me. That's right. Now step All right. One. Two. Three. Open your forward. Bring your feet closer together. eyes. (Finger snap.) Sleep now. Close them Closer. That's right. (With a sudden forward down and go deeper asleep. (Repeat several pulling movement of the hand on the back of times.) the client's neck,) Sleep now. your arm drops limply down and you go deeper in sleep. (Tap forehead.)

TESTING AND DEEPENING BY OTHER METHODS OF TESTING COMPOUNDING AND DEEPENING

EYE CATALEPSY AUTOMATIC MOTION – SPINNING HANDS

Spoken to Subject Spoken to Subject I'm going to count from five down to one. As I do, you're eyelids lock so tightly This time I'm going behind you to raise closed that the more you try to open them, your hands - and start moving them around the tighter they're locking closed. each other. Now, as I release your hands, continue the motion of your own accord. Five, your eyes are pressing down (Start the spinning motion, ease back, and tightly. repeat.) Four, pressing down and sealing shut. Moving, spinning, turning. Three, sealing as if they were glued. Moving, spinning, turning. Even faster Two, they're locked. The more you try to now. open them now the tighter they're locking Moving, spinning, turning. That's good. closed. (reverse mental effect) As your hands are turning, I want you to One, try to open your eyelids now and think about your heart. Your heart beats find them locking tighter and tighter. That's automatically in response to the needs of fine. You can stop trying now. Just relax and your body. In the same way, your hands are go deeper. turning automatically so that the more you try to stop the motion, the faster they're turning. Try to stop them now; they're STIFF ARM turning faster. Moving, spinning, and turning. Spoken to Subject I'm going to touch your forehead. The Raise and stiffen your arm. Make a fist. instant I do, your hands spin in the opposite (Help client achieve this position, then let direction. (Touch forehead.) Back the other go.) That's good. Just like a steel bar, stiff way, moving, spinning, and turning. And as and powerful. So stiff and rigid and so they're turning, you're going much deeper in powerful that the more you try to lower or sleep. bend your arm, the stiffer and tighter it This time I touch your forehead, your left becomes. Try to lower or bend your arm and arm drops limply down to your side; your find it locking stiff, stiff and rigid. The right arm continues the movement. (Touch harder you try, the stiffer it becomes. forehead.) Left arm drops; right arm That's fine. When I touch your forehead, continues, and as it's moving you're going deeper and deeper into hypnosis. Now, once again, with the other hand. This time I touch your forehead - right (Repeat.) arm drops limply down; you go much deeper. (Touch forehead.) Drop it down OBTAINING MENTAL and go deeper. That's fine. RELAXATION See Dave Elman Technique DEEPENING THROUGH PHYSICAL Spoken to Subject CONTACT, DISORIENTATION Now you've relaxed your body. I'm going to show you how to relax your mind. Listen Spoken to Subject very carefully. The next time I touch your (Standing behind seated client, press forehead, I want you to start counting down on shoulders gently and backward from 100 like this, “One hundred, rhythmically, repeating) Deeper. Deeper deeper asleep. Ninety-nine, deeper asleep. asleep. Ninety-eight, deeper asleep.” (Rock client's head back and forth or Now after counting just a few numbers, in a circular movement.) As I rock you, I'm you'll find those numbers disappearing. going to count down from ten to one, and You'll find that your mind is so relaxed that you will become more relaxed that ever you'll just relax them out of your mind. before. All fight, get ready. (Tapping.) Three. Ten. Nine. Eight. You're drifting down. Two. One. Start counting aloud. Seven. Six. Five. Calmly, quietly, easily and “One hundred, deeper asleep.” gently. Four. Three. Two. One. More and more relaxed. Now just sleep deeply. Good. Slow them down now. “Ninety-nine, deeper asleep.” COMPOUNDING OF Fine. Start relaxing them out of your RELAXATION - MODIFIED DAVE mind. ELMAN TECHNIQUE “Ninety-eight, deeper asleep.” Fading and growing fainter. Spoken to Subject “Ninety-seven, deeper asleep.” Your arms are loose and limp, just like a rag doll. As I raise your hand, just let all of Fainter and fainter, fading into the the weight hang limply in my fingers. And distance. when I drop it, send a wave of relaxation all “Ninety-six, deeper asleep.” across your body. As you feel your hand Growing much fainter now. touch your body, send that wave of relaxation from the top of your head all the “Ninety-five, deeper asleep.” way down to the very tips of your toes. Good. Just let them fade completely out And as you do, you Find that you double of your mind. your previous level of relaxation. “Ninety-four, deeper asleep.” (If needed,) Now let them fade away of rive, your eyes are open, you're fully completely. aware then, feeling calm, rested, refreshed, relaxed. Now you've relaxed your body. You've relaxed your mind. You've gone much All right. deeper into hypnosis. One, slowly, calmly, easily and gently, you are returning to your full awareness once again. INCREASING SUGGESTIBILITY Two, each muscle and nerve in your body is loose and limp and relaxed, and you Spoken to Subject feel wonderfully good. All right. You've relaxed your body. Three, from head to toe you're feeling You've relaxed your mind. At this point, perfect in every way, physically perfect, your subconscious mind is open and highly mentally perfect, emotionally calm and responsive to all good, powerful, creative serene. and beneficial ideas and instructions. On number four, your eyes begin to feel Now your subconscious mind is open. sparkling clear, just as though they were You can easily accept and act on each bathed in cold spring water. suggestion that I give you, not because I say so but because it's the nature of your mind to On the next number I count, eyelids respond to ideas in this way. open, fully aware, feeling calm, rested, refreshed, relaxed, invigorated and full of energy. TERMINATION METHODS PRE- Number five, you're fully aware now, TRANCE TERMINATION eyelids open. Take in a deep breath, fill up your lungs, Spoken to Subject and stretch. In a moment I'm going to bring you back to full conscious awareness. Before I do, is there anything further you want to say to me or ask me or tell me today? Quickly now, who do I remind you of? What qualities do I share with ____?

TRANCE TERMINATION

Spoken to Subject Now I'm going to count from one to five, and then I'll say “fully aware.” At the count TRANCE TERMINATION A Client's Reluctance to End Trance

Always terminate the trance in a Notice that on number three I say, “from standard way. The method I use is to count head to toe you are feeling perfect in every up from one to Five using positive, way, physically perfect, mentally perfect, powerfully creative suggestions between emotionally calm and serene.” When you each number for the purpose of bringing the “sell” those suggestions you reduce or person from the trance with feelings of eliminate the number of hypnotic hangovers euphoria and wellbeing. that may occur. First I tell the subject that I am going to You can't always tell what pockets of terminate the trance. energy have been released in trance and are floating close to the surface as a result, PRE-SUGGESTION therefore you can't know what quality of energy may flow up through that imaginary “Now in just a moment I am going to trap door between the conscious and count from one to five and at the count of subconscious as you terminate the trance. five your eyes are open, you are calm, rested, You want to be sure that the subject refreshed, relaxed and fully aware.” terminates the trance and leaves your office I have told them what I am going to do feeling good, no matter what experience they and how I am going to do it, so they know have been through during the therapy. what to expect. Having said that I continue: “HYPNOTIC HANGOVER” SUGGESTION PHASE There are just a few occasions in which “All right we are ready to begin.” this trance termination may not effectively “One, slowly, calmly, easily and gently, bring the subject up from trance “feeling returning to your full awareness once again. good”. Two, each muscle and nerve in your body is The first situation that can occur is called loose and limp and relaxed and you feel the “Hypnotic Hangover.” You can good. Three from head to toe you are feeling recognize the hypnotic hangover when the perfect in every way, physically perfect, subject reports feelings of drowsiness, or a mentally perfect, emotionally calm and headache, or they might report, “I feel serene. On number four your eyes begin to strange ... .. I feel different ... .. I feel like I feel sparkling clear, just as though they were want to go to sleep,” or other similar bathed in cool spring water. On the next statements. This means that they need to be number now, eyelids open, fully aware re-hypnotised and the trance terminated feeling wonderfully good. Number Five, again. eyelids open, fully aware take a good deep There is no need for alarm when a breath, fill up your lungs and stretch and person reports such responses. They only smile.” occur on a first induction, which is the very take control - such as a husband who is very evidence that they are based on fear. Once protective and who says “What is it all about they have realized that there is no reason to - tell me - what are you going to do?” be fearful in the trance, they give it up. I reply, “I'll take care of it, it's my Sometimes a person will say, “You could responsibility - I'll take care of it now.” I let never hypnotize me - I don't believe in them know that I know exactly what to do - I hypnosis!” You can hypnotize them with am in charge - I am responsible for that rapid methods but they are the ones most persons behavior if it's related to hypnosis. I likely to have a hypnotic hangover. It is best do not allow them to say “No, I'm going to to avoid it by saying, “If that is the way you take them off to the emergency ward” or feel, then I respect your feelings.” “I'm going to call the rescue squad,“ - We don't have to prove that hypnosis because that doesn't serve any useful exists or that it is a creative force or that it's purpose. a natural state - we don't have to win a When their eyes are open and they are debate over anyone who has a highly talking and report feeling dizzy and sleepy, emotionalized view that hypnosis is say to the subject, “I am going to get rid of someone taking power over someone else that feeling for you right now. Here's what I unless that person is a client. When a person want you to do - just look at me - close your pays their money to come to us for help, we eyelids down and as I count from ten down must use everything in our power, Le: to one just turn loose, and completely relax,” reasoning capacity, Re-education, to help and re-induce the trance. Once they have them to get the help that they are paying to returned to the trance state I can educate get. them more easily - because the analytic mind The Hypnotic Hangover is dealt with is inactive. best in this way. An example of where it I say to them “You may have come up occurs frequently is in the stage hypnotism from hypnosis a little too quickly and show. In the early sixties, I worked night sometimes that causes a slight feeling of clubs all across this great country and quite disorientation like you experienced so this frequently a waiter would come to me and time I am going to count from one up to ten say someone wants to talk to you at table #9 (Double the count - instead of one to five l would go over to the table - there would be make it one to ten) when I reach the count of one of the persons who had been on the ten your eyes are open, you are fully alert, stage, or someone who hadn't even been on fully aware, (counter-suggest to their the stage but had gone into trance at the complaint - if sleepy then fully awake, table. They would say, “I don't feel good,” or wonderfully alert - if they feel nauseous then “I feel sleepy,” or “I feel dizzy,” or say, “Your stomach and chest feel sometimes they would put their head down wonderfully good).” on the table and be back in the trance. Sell positive words that are the antonyms I let them know immediately that I am in to any of the symptoms reported - then go control of the situation - and I know what to ahead, count them up and as they open their do. I would go to the table and say “Yes, that eyes simply state “Now, you feel good.” is known as a Hypnotic Hangover - it happens once in a while - I'll take care of it That is the only thing you say as they right now.” If anyone at the table is trying to open their eyes and then sit for a minute. Don't make it appear that you are waiting to So I said, “I'll take care of that,” and I see how they feel - have a little conversation went back, spoke to her, brought her up, and with others at the table and if a minute or she looked fine. I said “take a deep breath,” I two goes by and they are not reporting “Oh, went back up to the front of the room and no I still feel drowsy,” you can get up and leave sooner had I got up there when I heard, “Mr. but if you wait a couple of minutes and the Boyne, Mr. Boyne,” and there she was back subject says, “Oh, I still feel woozy,” I down on the couch. would do it again. I quickly analyzed the situation. This young girl wanted to get attention from a DIFFICULT AWAKENING male authority figure. So I said, “I'm going to take care of it.” (Termination of Trance: An Unusual Attached to this group of teenagers was a Case) psychiatric social worker who was part of the group. Her job was to counsel the girls There is one case which I want to tell about their problems. So, I talked to her and you about. I said, “Here is what I'm going to do, I'm I was hired by a teenage group who were going to take this girl home and I want you members of the Y.W.C.A. They wanted to to come with me so that I won't be alone raise money for the Los Angeles orphanage with her and we'll talk to her mother and I'll and they considered a hypnotism show as a take care of the rest,” and she agreed. fund-raising activity. They contacted me and The girl was still in a trance, so I said asked, “How much would you charge,” and I “When I count to three you'll stand up and offered to donate my services provided all you're going to walk. You're going to walk the proceeds were going to charity. between us and we're going to take you I met with the group for some procedural home.” She stood up, eyes still closed, and arrangements and there were about 35 we walked her side-by-side like people will female teenagers. One said - “My father's a walk with someone who might be drunk. I printer and he is going to do all the printing asked for her address which she gave me, for us.” Another said, “Yes, we are going to and we got into the car, all three of us in the get the town-hall in Huntington Park for front seat. $10.” We arrived at her house, got her out and Then they asked, “Would you put on a came up to the front door. I knocked on the demonstration,” and I agreed. door, at about ten in the evening, and a When I terminated the trance and people young boy, about ten years old, opened the were beginning to leave there were some door. I said, “Your sister is not feeling well, girls who had been sitting on a couch in the is your mother home.” He said “No she's not back of the room and one of them said “Oh here.” I said, “Your sister is not feeling good Mr. Boyne, there's a girl here who has fallen and this lady is a friend of hers and she's over in a trance.” going to put her to bed.” So he said “fine,” and went back to watching television. When I asked if she had opened her eyes, she said, 'Only for a minute, and then she I said to her “After you have her in bed fell over again.” and covered up, and tucked in, call me. When she called, I went in, sat down next to the bed, took the girls hand and I said, “You that this was a broken home, and that this are home now, you are in your own bed and youngster was highly sexually active - you are ready to go to sleep. Before you go including with some older, married men. to sleep is there anything further you want to These details were not known to me when I say to me or ask me or tell me.” had to deal with this situation but I've never had anyone with a hypnotic hangover who She said, “Yes.” retained the symptoms. I said, “What is it?” “Can I come up on the stage and be in SUBJECT CHOOSES NOT TO the show when you do it?” TERMINATE TRANCE I said, “Yes - under one condition. I'm Now, what happens when the subject going to count from ten down to one then chooses not to terminate the trance. You I'm going to leave this room, you will drift must always be aware that it is the subject's very quickly into a sound and natural choice. When they don't terminate the slumber. You sleep deeply, soundly, trance, nothing has gone wrong. They continuously all night long and you will haven't become unconscious, they haven't awaken at your usual awakening time in the gone to Never Never Land - they have morning. What time do you normally get up simply made a subconscious decision to for school?” remain in the trance. She said, “At seven o'clock,” They do that for a variety of reasons. I said, “You will awaken at seven a.m. First of all, we live in a very hypertensive and you will feel wonderfully alert and age. Last year seven million valium tablets refreshed.” were sold. Many people are so hypertensive that the first time they get into a trance and With that I withdrew. I wrote down the they feel the total discharge of accumulated phone number and the next morning at tension, it is so profound that they don't want seven-thirty I called. The mother answered - to leave it. I had found out that their father didn't live with them - I said “This is Mr. Boyne There is a normal disinclination to connected with the Y.W.C.A. Your daughter terminate the trance state and when you wasn't feeling too well last night, the social intensify that feeling you'll find that it may worker brought her home, put her in bed and keep a person from responding to your I'm just calling to see how she is.” trance termination signal. They may have some very difficult situations in life. She said, “She's fine, she's in the shower right now singing.” I called again at seven that night, and the mother said thank you for ANOTHER UNUSUAL CASE inquiring but she just went off to a record I once had a lady who didn't awaken on hop at the Y. When I did the stage show a the stage at a night club called “The Cave” month later, she came up on the stage and in Vancouver, British Columbia. She had everything was fine. She had no problem been very lethargic all during the show. I terminating her trance. knew she was in a trance but she wasn't I did find out through the social worker, acting out the suggestions. When the show who had talked to some of the other girls, was over, I said “Eyelids open, and you may all return to your seats.” She never moved, so I dealt with it this way. It was a very big I said, “What is it that you do not want to club, seating six hundred and fifty people. I face.” said, ”This is a wonderful city and I am very She said, “I found out that my husband is glad to be here. I am a bachelor and I get homosexual and since then I've gotten lucky at some of my shows and this looks as hooked on drugs.” though this is one of my lucky nights.” I picked the girt up, threw her over my I said, “I can understand you not wanting shoulder and walked off the stage waving to to face such very difficult things but you applause. Several people might have said, can't escape them by staying in a trance, “Oh, that's a plant, and that's the way he even though this may be the first relief from ends his show.” the emotional pressure that you have felt since you learned about your husband - you I took her over to the office, put her on a simply can't escape it this way. This is what chair and began to talk to her. First I did all I'm going to offer you. I am in town for the things I've told you - I counted from one another three weeks and I do work with up to ten - she didn't respond. Then I said, clients with Hypnotherapy at my hotel room. “All right, I'm going to place your right hand If you will agree to terminate this trance in my hand.” I placed her hand in my hand right now I will agree to work with you on with her fingers down, and I said, “To show this problem to help you to cope with it. If that you are aware of the sound of my voice that is agreeable, move the little finger on just move the little finger of your hand.” I your right hand.” She did. said that about seven times before I got a very tiny movement. Then I knew that she I said, “Now, you tell me - what must I was in contact with me and hadn't fallen do for you to come up from this trance?” asleep. I put my ear to her mouth because I She said, “Smack my face - hard.” had decided that she was in very lethargic trance in which there is a powerful I did and she came up from the trance disinclination to move or think or speak or and had no memory of anything that had act. taken place from the time she first came up on the stage and locked her hands and I had I said to her, “You have chosen to said, “Now go deep asleep.” That was the remain in this trance and that is your choice, last thing she consciously remembered. but I can't let you stay here. This club is closing shortly and as you know it is a I worked with her almost every day. We supper club which serves lots of food and I became very fast friends and we can tell you that there are many, many rats in corresponded after I came back to California this place and when the lights are turned out for quite a period of time. Eventually she they run all around the place.” divorced and remarried. As you can see, if you keep calm, and realize that they haven't I saw her begin to frown - the message gone anywhere except inside themselves, got through - so I said, “Now you've made you are the best person to deal with them, this choice you want to stay in this trance because they have a special relationship with and I'm going to help you tell me what it is you and nothing untoward can happen. I that keeps you from coming up from your have had a dozen cases like that and dealt trance.” with them all in similar ways. She said, “I don't want to face it.” there is no response. You must avoid, ordinary mistakes, and keep anyone else that's around from getting involved. Some RELUCTANT TRANCE people will say, “Throw a glass of water in TERMINATION his face,” or they want to smack them on the Now let's go back to the trance face and say “Wake-up, wake-up, wake-up.” termination for those people who are a little Keep them away you are in charge. You bit reluctant. induced the trance and you are fully Suppose you count from one up to five responsible so long as you are working with and the person's eyes remain closed. What is that person. Don't let anyone else interfere, the first thing you do? you are in charge. Count again, slower this time and if they So now you have counted from one to still don't respond, if it is possible and Five, and blown on the eyelids. Next count practical for you to leave them in the trance from one up to ten double your count, and for awhile, you might say to them, “All do it twice before deciding that they are not right, you have chosen to stay in this trance, going to come up. Now you are down to the so I am going to let you rest in this trance for final one. fifteen minutes longer, then I'll come back It goes like this, “Now it is important and squeeze your shoulder three times and that you come up from trance at this time. tell you to terminate the trance and at that So this time I am going to do it differently, I time you can do so.” If they are in their own am going to count from one up to ten and at home, or in your home or where it is safe the count of ten your eyes are open, you are and convenient, that's a good thing to do and calm, rested, refreshed, relaxed, you feel almost always when you come back they are wonderfully good in every way. If however, ready to awaken. I like that method because you continue keeping your eyelids closed it gives them a great deal of freedom. It says after number ten I am going to continue to them that they are in charge of this and I counting except that each number I count know it and I am prepared to leave them in past ten, I'm going to tap your head with my charge. finger, like this.” Give a good rap on the top The very first thing you do is to count of their head with your finger, so that it's felt from one up to five, if there is no response but it is not going to inflict pain. you count from one to five again but no “Each number I count past ten, I am response. Next, position yourself so that going to tap your head like this.” TAP. your mouth is about twelve to fifteen inches “With each number I count and each time I away from and directly in front on their tap your head, it is going to begin to feel like closed eyelids. Fill up your lungs and expel a a steel mallet hitting your head. With each very long breath, sharply against their closed number I count past twelve all the muscles eyelids, Sh-h-h-h-h. Do that four or five in your head neck and shoulders will begin times and for reasons that I cannot explain, to tighten up and begin to feel more and and I don't think they can be explained more painful.” easily, that is effective seventy five percent “As I continue counting upwards from of the time; especially if you have had garlic ten you get the worst headache you've ever for lunch. had in you r life and each time I tap your Now let's assume that you do that and head it feels as if there's a white hot wire around your temples that is being tightened. eyes your head is clear, fourteen.” Now the instant that you open your eyes, They open their eyes. your head becomes clear and you feel I have never had to go past thirteen and I wonderfully good. All right we're going to have only done that a few times in my begin.” career. Now be very careful. I know that all When you get to number ten you say, of you are very creative and very inventive “O.K. This is your chance now - open your and you like to modify things. eyes and feel wonderfully good.” Years ago I used to say, “You are getting If they don't open their eyes, say, “All a knot in your stomach, it's drawing up, right I am going to start counting upward tighter and tighter and tighter now.” now - get ready, Number eleven.” TAP - you I was standing in front of a person when hit them on top of the head. I did this and they leaned forward and threw Then you say, “All the muscles in your up all over my legs. So be sure that you head, neck and shoulders now are growing stand behind them and tell them that the tight, they are tightening up and you head is discomfort is in their head - not their beginning to pulse and to pound, number stomach. twelve.” TAP - you hit them again. You will not experience difficulty very “That pulsing, beating, pounding, often, but when you do, Stay Calm. hurting, pain is growing stronger now, Maintain your authority and use the thirteen.” TAP - “It's like a white hot band principles discussed in this lesson. of steel around your head growing tighter and tighter and the instant you open your DEFINITIONS OF HYPNOSIS By the “Recognized” Experts

The greatest discovery of my generation than, he can in the ordinary state of is that human beings can alter their lives by awareness. In all probability this ability altering their attitudes of mind. derives from intensity and restriction, of attention to the task in hand, and the conse- William James quent freedom from the ordinary conscious tendency to orient constantly to distracting, Actually, the hypnotic state, like the even irrelevant, reality considerations. conscious state and the sleeping state, is Encyclopedia Britannica extremely complex and involves so many physiological, psychological, and interpersonal factors that no one theory has Hypnotism is simply exaggerated yet been able to account for all the intricate suggestibility. operations that take place within its range. George H. Estabrooks This does not at all hinder our practical employment of this interesting method. In medicine we utilize many remedies and All of the various mesmeric, hypnotic, procedures because they work, even though and verbal suggestive induction procedures we may not know exactly why and how they have only one objective: To help promote work. Every year, research adds more data to this state of single-mindedness, of our fund of knowledge, providing an exclusively concentrated attention, leting empirical foundation for our pragmatic other ideas pass into torpid oblivion. superstructure. Because the monoidealized attention has Lewis R. Wolberg heightened the intensity of the one focal or dominant idea, the power of the imagination on mind and body is considerably greater Hypnosis is the term applied to a unique, than in the ordinary waking state, and thus complex form of unusual but normal suggestions are likely to initiate behavior which can probably be induced in correspondingly greater influence. all normal persons under suitable conditions Ronald E. Shor and also in many persons suffering from various types of abnormality. It is primarily a special psychological state with certain A state of intensified attention and physiological attributes, resembling sleep receptiveness, and an increased only superficially and marked by a responsiveness to an idea or to a set of ideas. functioning of the individual at a level of awareness other than the ordinary conscious Milton H. Erickson state... when hypnotized, or in the hypnotic ...Temporary condition of altered trance, the subject can think, act and behave attention in the subject which may be in relationship to either ideas or reality induced by another person and in which a objects as adequately as, and usually better variety of phenomena may appear sponta- neously or in response to verbal or other concentration upon a designated goal stimuli. These phenomena include direction... to put it succinctly, hypnosis is alterations in consciousness and memory, an altered state of attention which ap- increased suggestibility, and the production proaches peak concentration capacity. in the subject of responses and ideas Herbert Spiegel unfamiliar to him in his usual state of mind. Further, phenomena such as anesthesia, paralysis, muscle rigidity and vasomotor Hypnosis is a consent state of changes can be produced and removed in the physiological relaxation where the subject hypnotic state. allows the critical censor of the mind to be American Medical Association bypassed to a greater, or lesser, degree... we could even go so far as to say that hypnosis is “preventive psychological medicine.” The essence of hypnosis lies in the Peter Blythe experimental fact of a quantitative shift in the upward direction which may result from the hypnotic procedure. So far as the writer ... An altered state of the organism can see, this quantitative phenomenon alone originally produced by a repetition of stimuli remains of the once imposing aggregate in which suggestion (no matter how defined) known by the name of hypnosis. But this is more effective than usual. Such a undoubted fact is quite sufficient to give definition as this is admittedly ringed with significance and value to the term. ifs and buts and questions of how, what and Clark L. Hull why, and is more descriptive than explanatory. F. L. Marcuse ... Nothing but an aspect of conditioning. There is nothing mysterious about hypnosis. Its application is based solely on Hypnosis is largely a question of your the known psychological relationship willingness to be receptive and responsive to between the conscious and the subconscious ideas, and to allow these ideas to act upon minds. The subconscious, having no power you without interference. These ideas we to reason, accepts and acts upon any fact or call suggestions. suggestions given to it by the conscious mind. Andre M. Weitzenhoffer and Ernest R. Hilgard Frank S. Caprio and Joseph R. Berger

Hypnosis is not sleep. Whatever sleep is, A complete theory of hypnosis would hypnosis is not. In an operational sense, doubtless have much to say about the hypnosis is a response to a signal from relationship of the hypnotic state to known another or to an inner signal, which activates processes going on within the brain and a capacity for a shift of awareness in the nervous system, the various parameters subject and permits a more intensive influencing hypnotic performances, the subordinate processes of induction and 4. Heightened and selective sensitivity to trance deepening: However, such a complete stimuli perceived by the five senses and theory is not available. four basic perceptions. Josephine R. Hilgard 5. Immediate softening of psychic defenses. Gil Boyne It is recognized that there is no generally accepted definition of hypnosis, though considerable consensus exists at a descriptive level. Martin T. Orne

...An altered state within which suggestions have a peculiarly potent effect. K. S. Bowers

It is a somewhat altered state of consciousness and altered awareness, although the conscious mind is still present. We might compare it to a teeter-totter. In the waking state the conscious mind is at the high end of the teeter-totter and the subconscious mind at the low end. Under hypnosis they reverse and the subconscious is at the high end and the conscious part at the low end, but it is still present. Thoughts rise from the inner mind into consciousness. Leslie M. LeCron

Hypnosis is a natural state of mind with special identifying characteristics: 1. An extraordinary quality of relaxation. 2. An emotionalized desire to satisfy the suggested behavior: The person feels like doing what the hypnotist suggests, provided that what is suggested does not generate conflict with his belief system. 3. The organism becomes self-regulating and produces normalization of the central nervous system. THE NATURE OF HYPNOSIS

This diagram shows that hypnosis is not sleep or unconsciousness but a super-concentration of the mind. It explains clearly why suggestion is more powerful in hypnosis than in the ordinary state.

ORDINARY STATE

SUGGESTION Only a few “units” affected by suggestion, therefore effect is weak.

UNITS OF MIND POWER Scattered units of mind power untouched by suggestion.

HYPNOSIS Units of mind power concentrated and all affected by suggestion, therefore strong effect. No mind power left to SUGGESTION take notice of anything apart from the hypnotic suggestion, therefore even pain is ignored.

AFTER HYPNOSIS

Units of mind power scattered UNITS OF MIND POWER again, but now each carries a dose WITH A DOSE OF of suggestions. SUGGESTION HOW A NEUROSIS DEVELOPS

PATIENT FORGETS THIS ORIGINAL INCIDENT OR ORIGINAL CAUSE FEAR IDEA GIVES RISE TO FEAR & ANXIETY

FEAR & ANXIETY GIVE RISE PATIENT'S MIND IS FULLY TO TENSION TENSION OCCUPIED WITH VICIOUS CIRCLE

SYMPTOMS VICIOUS MORE CIRCLE SYMPTOMS

TENSION GIVES RISE MORE TENSION CAUSES TO SYMPTOMS MORE SYMPTOMS (More (Asthma, For Example) Asthma) MORE TENSION

FEAR OF SYMPTOMS CAUSES MORE TENSION RECOMMENDED READING

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SUCCESS PROGRAMS Success Through Mind Power - Roy Hunter - $6.95 understandings and an increased willingness INTRODUCTION: DEFINITION OF to respond either positively or negatively to HYPNOSIS those ideas. The field of focused conscious Hypnosis is a natural state of mind with awareness narrows and external stimuli, special identifying characteristics as follows: other than those given by the hypnotist, lose 1. An extraordinary quality of mental, their significance. In effect, the subject physical and emotional relaxation. reduces their contact with the external world except for the relationship with the 2. An emotionalized desire to satisfy the hypnotist. As subjects give up their focus on suggested behavior: the subject feels like external stimuli and begin to focus on their following the hypnotist's instructions, internal world, they become less dependent directions and suggestions, except those upon their external reality to provide that generate conflict with the subject's meaning and structure to their perceptions values, i.e., character attitudes, religious and responses. beliefs and moral principles. Reality for the subject and what happens 3. The organism becomes self-regulating as within that reality is defined internally and the trance produces normalization of the not by external events or circumstances. central nervous system. Hypnotized subjects enter a world in which 4. Heightened and selective sensitivity to ordinary rules and events of reality are stimuli perceived by the five physical replaced by internally based ones. In the senses and the basic perceptions. trance state a new and different reality develops. 5. Immediate softening of psychic defenses. The hypnotic state creates a rapport 6. Lack of response to irrelevant, external which can be used to enhance the subject's stimuli. response. As the subject develops trust and Every person can develop a natural state confidence in the hypnotist, increased of awareness called hypnosis or trance. response develops and should be carefully Hypnosis is a normal experience, which cultivated. Increased response to the ideas anyone can have, in the right circumstances presented by the hypnotist is most desirable and with the right hypnotist. Unlike ordinary because it is what enables the hypnotist to conscious awareness, which involves a guide the subject's use of memories and constantly shifting focus of attention, the unused capacities in ways that create the hypnotic state of mind involves a focusing hypnotic experiences desired. of internal attention and an elimination of Although a hypnotic state will enable external distractions. subjects to respond more effectively to A major characteristic of hypnosis is a suggestions, it does not guarantee that they lack of response to irrelevant external will do so. Suggestions must be presented in stimuli. an appropriate manner that is meaningful In hypnosis the subject is neither and useful to the individual subjects, given unconsciousness nor asleep - it is a special their unique personalities, backgrounds, and state of awareness in which there is a needs; otherwise the subjects will be unable heightened receptiveness to ideas and or unwilling to comply. Hypnosis does not create automatons who will automatically understand or obey the hypnotist's every Although childlike in many respects, it command. Subjects remain true to actually is wiser and more perceptive than themselves, no matter how deeply the conscious mind. It contains a vast range hypnotized, and will decide how they want of unrecognized capabilities and potentials, to comply. some of which are used in an unnoticed fashion on a daily basis. In addition, the Subjects can reject anything the operator subconscious is a universal attribute. No suggests and subjects respond in accordance matter how different people are in their with their unique patterns. Suggestions conscious realms of existence, they remain unacceptable to their total personalities lead linked by the qualities and capacities of their to a rejection of the suggestion or to a subconscious minds. transformation of them so that they can be satisfied by pretense behavior. The subconscious knows no ethnic or cultural boundaries; it speaks in a literal When in a deep trance, clients hear and manner and uses a form of thought that respond to the Hypnotherapist primarily understands the subconscious of another with the subconscious mind. What people in much more effectively than could the a trance hear, see, know or do, is a function conscious mind of either person. The of the perceptions, knowledge, and response subconscious mind is a creative intelligence patterns of their subconscious minds. During and is the doorway to our spiritual nature. trance, all of the concerns, beliefs, learnings, and responses of their ordinary conscious world become irrelevant. TRANCE: KEY TO THE MIND The tendency to respond to the hypnotist Every person has abilities not known to in childlike, simple, and literal ways is a the self; abilities that can be discovered in typical subconscious form of response. It is a trance. Memories, thoughts and feelings, can fundamental shift in the mode of thought, be completely or partially forgotten by the perception and response of the subject. conscious mind; and yet they are available to the subconscious and can be experienced Every hypnotic suggestion should be within trance when the client is ready for given in language permitting “ simplistic changed feelings and behavior. interpretations, “ because the trance tends to limit the spoken word to its literal meaning. Through the process of age regression Precision and conciseness of instruction and revivification the subject can call upon allows subjects to respond in terms of their past experiences and learnings to experience own understandings. The literalness of the and utilize changes. trance state causes the client to have a new A memory or an imagined event, can be pattern of listening. experienced so vividly that it seems real. The subconscious mind perceives, thinks This process is responsible for most of the and responds to the world in a literal fashion phenomena which can be produced in unimpaired by the biases of the conscious hypnosis and it is important for the hypnotist mind. It sees things the conscious mind to be able to influence it. The hypnotist can ignores, it knows things the conscious mind guide awareness in specific ways to create has forgotten. It often influences the internal events which can be revived into thoughts, educated guesses, dream “real” hypnotic experienced for the subjects. experiences, and emotional responses. Past events may be relived, current events may be perceived and thought about in a and training of the Hypnotherapist and is totally new manner, and all sensations and one of the primary causes of failure in perceptions may be amplified, reduced, hypnotherapy. eliminated or replaced by an awareness of Successful use of hypnosis is not those derived entirely from internal events. It expectations, patter, verbiage, hope or desire is out of the use of these understandings and of either the subject or the therapist. The memories in the mind that hypnotic subjects proper use of hypnosis is in the development develop their behavior. of an environment reflecting the subject's The development of the trance state is a own learnings, understandings and psychic phenomenon, and the ability and experiences. activity of the hypnotist can create a highly When trances are developed, they are the favorable setting in which to instruct clients result of ideas, mental concepts and in a more creative use of their own understandings already existing and aroused potentials. The Hypnotherapist offers within the subjects by the Hypnotherapist. instruction and direction to the client and Many hypnotherapists regard their activities elicits information and feelings that expedite and their intentions as the affective forces; the therapy. and believe that their utterances to the When the Hypnotherapist maintains an subject initiate specific responses. They fail attitude of positive expectancy, he places the to realize that what they say or do only responsibility for all developments entirely serves to arouse in the subjects past upon the subject. learnings and understandings, consciously and subconsciously acquired. BE FLEXIBLE The hypnotist creates an appropriate atmosphere, guides attention in particular Inductions and therapy methods used can directions and offers stimuli in order to elicit be tailored to fit the needs and expectations specific responses. of the subject. The subject defines the most effective hypnotic procedures. Hypnotists The induction procedure provides a must be observant and flexible enough to ritual in a setting in which hypnosis adapt their style and their role to those needs develops; it offers distractions to hold the and attitudes. attention of the subject while hypnosis occurs. Techniques cannot be followed rigidly with good success since, in hypnosis, the Never talk down to, or over the head of personality needs of the individual subject the client and always structure the must be met, rather than merely inducing a relationship as person-to-person not as trance and giving suggestions. doctor-to-patient. Clients enter the therapy setting with mixed emotions and conflicting Poorly trained hypnotherapists try to fit desires. They desire help and guidance, but the clients to a specific technique of they are afraid to do what they know they suggestion, rather than adopting the must do. They may want nothing more than technique to the clients in accord with their to have the therapist understand the situation actual psychic projections and needs. The perfectly, and yet they may do a great deal to “standardized technique,” or the giving of hide their real problems or thoughts from the identical suggestions to different subjects, is therapist. Clients are people who have an merely a measure of the lack of knowledge injury: a painful, uncomfortable or want a client to feel relaxed, express it in embarrassing area of life. For one reason or your voice. another they have not been able to face these CREATING RESPONSE injuries and handicaps directly, which is why The first question students ask is, “What they have developed problems. The major exactly do you say to induce hypnosis?” purpose of developing a therapeutic There is no single or best thing to say; there relationship quickly is to help the client feel is no universal script. Like any new teacher able to reveal and discuss their problems as they will be nervous, awkward, and rapidly as possible. somewhat ineffectual at first, but given the The type of programming you give to a right background and feedback during a client depends upon the attitude of that series of practice sessions they will client toward you and the therapeutic eventually begin to master the process in process and the behavioral change desired. their own way. Suggestions can always be given in a In hypnosis you want your client to form that the client can accept easily. respond to a series of ideas. It is your Suggestions can be presented in a way that responsibility to learn how to speak to the the client cannot argue against. In order to client, how to keep his attention, and how to use hypnosis with the greatest success, stimulate the acceptance of an idea that fits present your ideas to clients so that they can into his desire for change. accept and examine them for their inherent Hypnosis does not develop from mere value. repetition. It comes from stimulating your Make general statements that a person client's ability to accept a concept and to can apply to specifics within his own life. respond to it. It is the manner, form and style The art of programming depends upon the in which you present the programming to the use of words and the meaning of words. client that is important. Use emotionally CHARGED words and The induction procedure provides a select words that carry a wealth of affective ritual in a setting in which hypnosis meaning. develops; it offers distractions to hold the attention of the subject while hypnosis Always be aware of how “organ occurs. language” is related to symptom formation and response to “subconscious scripts.” When you speak to a person, you let them know, “I'm speaking to YOU!” You Semantics are important, but can speak directly with your eyes or your communication is basic. Hypnosis is a voice or with a gesture. You must always science of intercommunication. Use your give your entire attention to the client. voice-inflections, intonations, pauses, hesitations - in every possible way to convey Subjects may need to be reassured that your meaning. When you use one tone of they can continue to pay attention to the voice that pertains to conscious thinking and things happening around them but that there another tone of voice that expresses ideas is no need to try to make the effort to do so which you intend for the subconscious, you for the time being. Their diminished contact are establishing the duality of the mind. with the external world may create a certain When you give a suggestion to a client, feel anxiety and cause an effort to re-establish it, sense it and mean it with sincerity. If you reality contact unless they are reassured. It is the prior creation of an atmosphere of trust rational, reasonable professional are and cooperation that facilitates the client's understandable, but self-defeating. The less surrender, it should be the first step in the understanding subjects have regarding the induction ritual. rationale for certain hypnotic procedures, the more responsive they will be to them. There Most hypnotists do not know that as the is nothing more difficult than trying to help a subject closes the eyes, he is cutting off the knowledgeable subject experience an visual field and is really losing something hypnotic response. What occurs is an and he doesn't know what he is losing. He intellectual analysis of the hypnotist's style thinks he is just closing his eyes. instead of an automatic, unthinking response An internal sensation, thought, memory to it. or mental image can capture and hold our Whenever you do the unexpected you attention for a time and the events of the jog a person out of their setting. surrounding world fade from awareness. Hypnosis is induced by using this natural They simply do not like to be confused. mental process. The hypnotist should be It is an absence of understanding that leaves interested in helping the subject become them open. When a clear-cut, definitive, focused upon an internal event of some sort; easily grasped and understood statement is whether a physical sensation, a memory, an uttered, the confused subject seizes upon it. emotion, or an internal image. Since they don't know what to do, the therapist can tell them what to do. Arm levitation suggestions are often given as the first step to gain active The rapidity, insistence and confidence participation. Once an ideomotor response is with which the suggestions are given serve made, it can be utilized immediately by to prevent the subjects from making any pyramiding further suggestions. effort to create a semblance of order. As subjects observe the induction of Learn to use hesitation and emphasis, another subject, the suggestions and since they both intensify the suggestion. responses they are observing will initiate an Use a direct authoritative suggestion automatic tendency to undergo similar where you see a client in an uncertain state. internal responses. The induction of a trance When she is uncertain, you help her by in the group situation accelerates the taking over firmly. That is acceptable as help response and creates a more rapid training of since clients have a long history of having the individual subject. This is especially true accepted help in such circumstances. when a highly responsive subject is used as a lesson for the group. Simply reassuring subjects that there is no longer any reason for them to listen consciously to what is being said and that RATIONAL OR EFFECTIVE? they can just relax and drift off while their The inexperienced subjects simply do subconscious takes over the responsibility of not know what to do but can easily learn to doing so is often highly effective. go into a trance state by being told how to How long does it take to develop a simulate hypnosis. (The rehearsal trance? When you have sufficiently prepared technique.) the subject, by exciting the imagination to The efforts to maintain one's image as a develop mental expectancy, you can induce a trance in a few seconds. responsibility of the subject, and they are dependent upon processes taking place within him. Usually, hypnotic questioning serves to TRAINING THE SUBJECT elicit the information more readily than can The subject can be trained by being be done in the waking state, but the entire hypnotized, awakened, re-hypnotized, and process depends on the development of a reawakened repeatedly, with each of the good client-therapist relationship rather than trance and waking states employed to teach upon hypnotic technique, and the hypnosis is them by degrees an awareness of control essentially a means by which the client can over mental faculties and an organization of give the information in a comfortable responses that increases the degree of manner. In hypnosis individuals are more dissociation between consciousness and open to ideas, and they more readily consent subconsciousness, thus establishing in effect to examine them. a dissociated hypnotic personality. Hypnosis is of value in every aspect Awakening and putting a client back into where instruction, advice, counsel, guidance trance repeatedly is also a way of deepening and reassurance are significant. trance. Hypnotherapy generates effective Single hypnotic sessions are to be learnings that would not be possible except avoided whenever possible because anyone by prolonged effort in non-hypnotic who has a second trance can have a third, a therapies. fourth, a fifth, and these repeated experiences develop the thought, “I can have Successful hypnotherapy should be a trance anytime I wish.” systematically directed to a Re-education of clients, and the stimulation of their strongest A total of twenty minutes of initial desires to reorganize themselves to the induction training is sufficient. Since trance realities of life and their ability to cope with induction is one process and trance the problems confronting them. utilization is another, time must be allotted for the subject to assimilate, learn and to Hypnosis cannot create new abilities respond to the reeducation process. within a person, but it can assist in a greater and better utilization of abilities already While giving suggestions for trance possessed, even if these abilities were not induction and trance maintenance, previously recognized, and trance is used for therapeutic suggestions can be interspersed. the client to discover he can do things. The hypnotist should maintain an Hypnosis allows freedom and ease in attitude of unshaken and contagious structuring the therapeutic situation and confidence in the subject's ability to enter renders the client's feelings much more the trance. accessible. In a hypnotic state the client gains a BENEFITS OF HYPNOSIS more acute awareness of his needs and Suggestions are given to the subject, but capabilities. He can be freed from mistaken the execution of them, the rapidity of beliefs, false assumptions, self-doubts and response, and their effectiveness are the fears which stand in the way of his fullest participation in life. the problem at hand. It can enable clients to learn to trust, to communicate with, and to Hypnosis enables clients to learn from use that vast range of hidden resources experienced events which they would stored within their own subconscious minds. otherwise tend to overlook or distort. The most important thing a Hypnotherapist Hypnosis allows the business of therapy to can teach the client during the pre-induction, progress more efficiently toward the final induction, therapy and programming phases goal of objective perception, acceptance and is that they can trust their subconscious mind competence within a reality which completely and rely upon it fully. previously had caused problems or symptoms. The trance offers both client and therapist a ready access to the client's They can meet their problems directly in subconscious mind. It permits a direct the trance state and can be encouraged to dealing with those individual life discover new or more competent ways to experiences which are significant to the cope with them. Experiences can be created problems and which must be processed if which encourage or demand a therapeutic creative results are to be achieved. Hypnosis response and communications can be offered gives prompt and extensive access to the which achieve an alteration in understanding subconscious. and behavior. In hypnotherapy the client can learn to look at things that are unpleasant - without MOTIVATION fear, with a willingness to understand, and Therapists should do whatever is with a willingness to cope in new ways. necessary to motivate clients. The therapist can serve as a source of comfort, hope, Re-education through hypnotherapy is a confidence, or inspiration as well as the complex restructuring of subjective source of frustration, discomfort, anger and experiences that can be initiated very simply fear. They can provide whatever it takes to and then gently guided toward a therapeutic initiate therapeutic movement. They create a goal. Essential elements are: clinical therapeutic setting within which clients will attentiveness to the client's behavior, a be motivated and confident enough to do the confident awareness that one can delay, even things that will help them to discover the halt, and nullify hypnotically whatever is kind of thought and behavior that fits their taking place, and postpone, modify or unique circumstances. The most important reinforce the structured situation leading to a thing that a therapist can do is create a therapeutic goal. “healing environment.” This will motivate Then, as a result of some tangible the clients to undergo the restructuring of performance, the client develops a profound events that allows them to apply their newly feeling that the repressive barriers have been acquired learnings efficiently within a more broken, that the communication is actually creative view of themselves and their understandable, and that its meaning can no relationships. You don't always need to longer be kept at a symbolic level. know what the problem is in order to Hypnosis enables the Hypnotherapist to achieve a therapeutic closure. When you talk exchange ideas and information directly strongly to the client you give them an with the client's subconscious. It frees the inspiration. They believe they can do things. subconscious to apply its capacities fully to State it simply and believe what you are saying. You can motivate a despairing client that it becomes an experience of seemingly to do things when you convey an reliving the original event. This intense understanding and sincere belief that they reorientation into the past is possible with can use their power for change. hypnosis and can be remarkably useful therapeutically. Displacement in time and Never give the client the impression that space and re-immersion into the past you are a “detective” searching for clues, provides opportunity for the client to instead, give them the impression that they discover things, more constructively to the are always sharing in the responsibility for experience than they did originally. It can be the success of the work. Rely on the client's used to resurrect old, more effective patterns own thinking and intelligence to make the of response or to remind clients of positive proper interpretation of the problem when he aspects of their past. It can focus their becomes ready for that realization and ready awareness upon events that were for change. misunderstood initially, especially when that Too many hypnotherapists try to recover misunderstanding has led to problems in the the total experience all at once. Start the present. Stimulating an awareness of the process of change and it continues! Once source of existing attitudes or reactions can change is underway and is recognized by the enable the person to gain a more useful client, he may temporarily regress, but perspective on the present. Within hypnosis cannot return to the original point of it is even possible to alter the subjective unknowing. experience of time in such a manner that Because you are dealing with a person clients can re-experience practically their who has both a conscious mind and a entire lives in the span of twenty minutes. subconscious mind, achieving good results Such an all-encompassing review may with a client in a deep trance does not mean provide immeasurable leaps in objective that the client will benefit from it in the self understanding and self-appraisal. ordinary waking state. There has to be an Hypnosis gives the client an opportunity integration of subconscious learnings with to dissociate himself from his problems and conscious awareness. In dealing with clients to take an objective view of himself. He can it is always necessary to decide how rapidly make an inventory of his assets and abilities, and how thoroughly they will need to and then, one by one, deal with his problems integrate what they learn subconsciously. instead of being overwhelmed by all of them (Spoken to the client. - ) and being able to think clearly in any direction. “Now, all of the things I've said to you will come back changed into your own ways The dissociation of intellectual content of understanding. And, in the future, you from emotional significance can create an will discover sudden insights, sudden understanding of the meaningfulness of understanding, a' sudden thought that you both. Hypnosis permits such dissociation hadn't thought of before. It will be your when needed, as well as correction of it. subconscious mind, bringing to your Point out to a client that it is perfectly conscious mind things that you already possible to remember the intellectual facts of knew, but you didn't know that you knew. “ something but not the emotional content, and vice versa. Revivification is the recollection of an event with such clarity, intensity and detail There is a vast difference between thinking and feeling: thinking can be valid how long the client will need to digest the but it's limited; a feeling can be anything new material. It could be a day or a week or even though it's a delusion and irrational, longer. and it is if emotional reasoning” that prevails The unfamiliar is unacceptable unless in daily life, not exercises in logic. We you can make it mystical. spend our lives doing what we “feel like doing.” The field of hypnosis is open to any person willing to qualify by interest, study The therapist can split off the intellectual and experience, and the intelligent use of aspects of a problem for a client and leave hypnosis depends essentially upon a only the emotional aspects to be dealt with. background and foundation of personal One can have a client cry out very intensely interest and specialized training. over the emotional aspects of a revived experience. Or, one can do it in a piecemeal Learning to be an effective fashion - that is, let him recover a portion of Hypnotherapist does not mean learning the the intellectual content of the experience of technique to use with everyone. Every client the past, then a portion of the emotional requires an unique approach. Imitation of content - and these different aspects need not anyone, or the recitation of a memorized necessarily be immediately connected. patter is not the road to success. Every Hypnotherapist must develop a personal Usually it's best to have clients style that is comfortable and flexible enough experience the emotional first and later the to be modified by each client's unique needs intellectual, because after they have and learnings. experienced the emotions so strongly, they have a need to integrate the intellectual Never assume that the subject's mind. understanding of instructions is identical with yours. Always praise your subjects and thank them for their participation. Do this before, Use the client's own words and during and after a trance episode. Such experience as much as possible for trance comments can relax potential subjects, induction and programming. provide support to hypnotized subjects and Study and learn hypnosis so well that no confirm the value of the trance to subjects matter what develops in any situation you emerging from the experience. Even if can think of something; you can devise nothing of particular significance has something that will meet your client's needs. happened during the trance, you want to avoid discouragement. If something Intellectual book knowledge about important has been learned, you do not want hypnosis won't do it, nor will reading books conscious skepticism to undo it. about hypnosis/hypnotherapy without highly competent training and practical experience. The purpose in having them describe the sensations is to confirm trance. Always give Long experience has disclosed that the praise to the subconscious and give credit easiest and quickest way to learn to induce a wherever you can. trance is to be hypnotized first, thus to learn the “feel” of it. Anybody who has been We can reinforce the value of the hypnotized can employ it to hypnotize experience by speaking well of it to the others, given cooperation and the patience to client even though we do not know exactly make use of it. When a client comes into your office and a Hypnotherapist in all aspects of life and need hypnotherapy, you've got to rely upon not just a feeble attempt to act like one your past experience and your past during office hours. It is the painstaking understandings. The most important thing is accumulation of detailed and accurate that you do have a body of experience, and a observations and related skills. It is the body of learning which you can utilize. willingness to participate in the hypnotherapeutic process oneself and to You go into self-hypnosis to achieve learn from direct personal experience as a certain things or acquire certain knowledge. hypnotic subject what hypnotherapy is all Do not try to solve client problems ahead of about and what the tool of hypnosis can time because as surely as you make a accomplish. conscious decision in advance, you start to improve on it and ruin it. When you have any doubt about your RULES FOR CREATING capacity to see the important things, go into SUCCESSFUL SUGGESTION a trance. When there is a crucial issue with a PROGRAMS client and you don't want to miss any of the Everyone who is serious about learning clues, go into a trance. suggestion programming needs to go through a new learning process to become Self-hypnosis is often a sterile procedure truly aware of exactly what they are saying because of misconceptions of its nature and and how it is being received. You can use. Usually the self-hypnotist tries too hard transform the client's own utterances into to direct consciously the activities he wishes vitally important suggestions to effectively to take place at the hypnotic level of change behavior. awareness, and inhibits the effort. People must hope to fill their needs eventually or they may refuse to try or give HOW TO PRACTICE up too soon. Their successes must be HYPNOTHERAPY recognized and acknowledged. The The goal of the Hypnotherapist is to help important thing is to develop a mental clients to alter their perceptions realistically, expectancy of success. Creative action is the so that they can use their potentials offspring of hope and expectancy. When an effectively to change self-limiting, infant is learning to walk we give the infant delusional and self-defeating patterns of the confident support of our expectation. thought and behavior. Full regard must be given to the human need There is no easy way to become an to succeed and to the desire for recognition effective Hypnotherapist. There is no single by the self and others. theory to memorize and apply with every Appreciation must be definitely client; there is no list of particular skills to expressed in some manner, preferably first master that can be used in every situation; in the trance state and later in the ordinary there is no mystical alteration in waking state. Always give praise to the consciousness that will provide universal subconscious. truth overnight. Effective hypnotherapy is not just special techniques such as voice inflections, word games, metaphors or PUTTING ASIDE CHILDISH THINGS anecdotes. It is a total commitment to being Children define the world and their experiences in a much different way than the for our human weakness and irrationality. adult, and their interpretations of their experiences are limited by their lack of TWO KINDS OF THINKING inductive reasoning and are vastly different from those of the adult. Early conditioning The conscious mind can think one way can serve to establish, and to fix within us, and the subconscious another. Your unhealthy and unsatisfying ways of behaving subconscious mind can develop a train of so that we become progressively more thought, without your conscious knowledge handicapped in our ability to fill our deeper and reach conclusions, and then let your needs. People who accomplish a great many conscious mind become aware of the things are people who have freed themselves conclusions. The subconscious perception of from negative childhood perceptions. reality is direct, unbiased and literal. It simply perceives, processes and reacts to whatever is. Its perceptions, understandings HOW WE VIEW “REALITY” and responses are like those of a child who We build up an unlimited number of has yet to learn the rules, judgments and biases which become part of our view of the biases of an adult. The behavior styles of the world. The word “bias” actually means a child represent the basic character of an viewpoint; a shaping of perception. adult's subconscious. When you have a client in trance, the client thinks like a child The subconscious is smarter, wiser and and reaches for an understanding in an open quicker than the conscious mind. It has and childlike manner. access to more information but on some occasions it can and does arrive at erroneous or illogical conclusions, because it reasons SUBCONSCIOUS STOREHOUSE deductively or from “effect back to cause” Because the subconscious mind is a vast and because it is the “feeling mind.” storehouse of unrecognized, unused and misused memories and learnings, it prefers REASON VERSUS EMOTION to work outside of the conscious awareness and knowledge. You cannot keep Emotions are not logical, rational or consciously in mind all the things you know, conscious, but they are a natural and useful considering all the learning you have form of subconscious communication. They acquired in a lifetime. However, when the tell us how we feel about something even appropriate time comes to respond with a when we are consciously unaware of how certain kind of behavior you can do so. You we feel. The subconscious is the feeling do not have to be consciously aware that you mind, and emotional reactions are not already have learned that behavior. Most necessarily rational when they are from the people do not know of their total capacities subconscious reactive level. The feeling is for response and they place mystical always the essential thing; not knowing that meanings on the information they get by you have the feeling or whether it is the subtle cues. “right feeling. “ The rational approach is right for most intellectual functions, but for total human functioning it is not useful since HOW CHANGE OCCURS much of our behavior is based on irrational There are many alternatives in every feelings. We must always make allowances situation, yet the neurotic believes “it's got to be this or that”! Reacting to the good and requiring an extensive background the bad in life, and dealing with it creatively, specialized of training and experience, but is the real joy in life. “Deal with what therapy really amounts to pushing the emerges” is always the primary rule. emotional, intellectual and spiritual buttons Providing the client with alternatives sets the that will cause the desired therapeutic stage for inner search and creative problem- reactions and learnings. The strategies and solving and the awareness that they can techniques employed by the therapist should cope. be genuine expressions of professional concern and not mere rote imitation or When clients discover something new, mechanical reproduction. they can never function again in the old way; their world is permanently changed. Therapy Intellectual insight into the past can be is often a matter of the correction of one somewhat educational. But insight never behavior and when that first change occurs changes the past and rarely triggers continuing change usually results. When the therapeutic change. Therapy is oriented to wrongly directed energy is liberated and the client living today, next week, next year. channeled in a new, creative direction, the The induction and maintenance of a client can begin the healing process. trance provides a special psychic state in The most important thing in therapy is to which the client can begin to reorganize his break up the client's rigid and limiting inner awareness and utilize his own mental sets. The client comes to you with a capacities. Therapy is accomplished when certain mental set and they expect you to get clients have an experience which triggers a into that set. If you surprise them, they let reorganization of previous understandings loose of their mental set and you can frame and responses. This can correct previously another mental set for them. held false ideas or misperceptions, or lift a rigid restriction, or present the truth to the The therapist can create conditions client in a new way. It is the client's conducive to change, can attempt to experience of reorganizing his own internal motivate the client to change and can even perceptions that stimulates change. We can provide a change-inducing experience, but help by presenting creative ideas and post- change must occur within the client. Change hypnotic suggestions in a way that cannot be forced upon clients and clients stimulates imagery and feeling and relates to cannot be expected to change in ways that the present as well as the future. It is this are inappropriate to their needs or foreign to experience that can lead to a cure. their backgrounds. Therapists must keep the burden of responsibility for change on the In hypnotherapy, always work for the shoulders of their clients. Since people can clients' action and response instead of do any number of things against themselves focusing on theories and concepts. Focus on and use very intelligent ways to defeat or creative responses of actions and change, not destroy themselves, you need to understand the consideration of the possibility of that if a person can destroy the self change, work to develop an expectancy for intelligently then they can also redirect their change! energies to build themselves up creatively. Give verbal examples and brief case Stimulating therapeutic change actually histories so that clients can find one that involves the application of some mechanical actually helps to alter their behavior. Study skills. They are admittedly complex skills your clients for evidence that they are accepting what you say. It is not the speaking but the utilization of the suggestion that makes it an effective agent in behavior change. Therapy occurs when the therapist allows it to occur in a safe environment at the speed which is comfortable for the client. DEVELOPING TRUST not overprotect or try to dominate or strongly influence clients. The therapist In dealing with clients, we must secure realizes that people have to “stub their toes” their cooperation and trust to make certain and “scrape their noses,” and it is usually that they respond as well as they can. when mistakes are made and pain is Without their full cooperation, therapeutic experienced that people are most receptive results are delayed, distorted, limited or even to new learning. Thus, the effective therapist prevented. Once you have created an will not over protect or cushion but will atmosphere of trust, confidence and an allow clients the right to make choices. expectation of success, you can stimulate the Subsequently, therapists must help clients client into action using his natural sources of learn from these choices by analyzing their motivation as the trigger. consequences. The best therapists function as sources of Respect is also appreciating the ability of inspiration, support and motivation. The the client to successfully deal with the nature essential ingredients are the therapist's of his problems. Respectful high-functioning genuine awareness of, respect for, and therapists have high expectations for the willingness to be responsive to the needs of ultimate success of the people they counsel. the client. Clients do not enter therapy to be They realize that successful living is not a lectured to, ignored or controlled; they enter matter of chance but the result of the therapy to be understood and assisted in application of sound principles. Respectful their attempts to cope with the realities of therapists realize that pain can be a treatment their internal and external situations. The ally, and that failure can be a teacher, so they Hypnotherapist can use a wide range of do not treat individuals as if they were strategies to create trust and cooperation. fragile. Respect includes three components. The Respect is perhaps the most basic first is an appreciation for the dignity and facilitative variable. If a therapist possesses worth of others. Respectful therapists can respect, he may lack sophistication but still detach themselves from the negative effects be helpful, whereas regardless of how of their clients' unprepossessing appearances sophisticated and what techniques a therapist and unfortunate past actions. The respectful has or may use, if he lacks respect, he will therapist senses the potential in each ultimately have a deteriorative effect on individual for growth and will not be clients. imprisoned by prejudice. Whether dealing with an alcoholic, a person with a long The therapist communicates the very history of delinquency, or one who has deepest respect for the client's worth as a sexual and moral attitudes grossly different person and enables him to act most from the therapist, the therapist can constructively and emerge most fully. The transcend these factors and relate to the therapist communicates a commitment to the inner worth, potential and strength in his client to do all he can to enable him to clients. actualize his potential. The second component of therapist respect is appreciating the client's right to IRRATIONAL SUBCONSCIOUS choose - to feel, to suffer, to make mistakes, BELIEFS etc. High functioning therapists regard as Begin your relationship with the sacred the client's free will. Therapists will realization that the client you meet in to discover if you are as caring as you should therapy is not fully rational, or fully capable be, and if you are as strong and combative as of responding in an adult manner to the you should be. When you have an demands of the specific frustrating intellectual subject, begin your attack in the situations. They may sound reasonable and intellectual arena. Fit your technique to the rational, and present their problems in a client's frame of reference. manner that sounds mature, but the fact is The authoritarian approach is always that they are often functioning in a very deemed appropriate whenever it utilizes the childish manner. We must recognize and client's previous life experience and current respond to these childish aspects to create a expectation that effective guidance always therapeutic atmosphere. Unreasonable or comes in an authoritarian form. childish beliefs and emotions should not be openly challenged as irrational, but can be Recognition, acceptance, and utilization used in the therapy. Clients should be treated of whatever the client presents will with a caring acceptance of the childish fears accomplish far more than a biased rejection that they bring into therapy with them. The or challenge of it. Clients come to you for therapist aids the client to express their help and although they may resist help, they irrational and unpleasant feelings and hope desperately you'll pass their tests. attitudes quickly and freely and encourages The skilled Hypnotherapist can quickly the client by a willingness to comment transform uncooperative forms of behavior appropriately and without expressing into a feeling of being understood, and a judgmental views. hopeful expectancy of achieving the desired goals. COMMUNICATION SKILLS Therapists often listen to words, to UNDERSTANDING THE HIDDEN stories, to psychic histories and do not listen MESSAGES to the actual communications that the client Often clients arrive not knowing why is offering. The actual communications most they are unhappy or disturbed. All they often concern the things that the client is know is that they are unhappy, and they give afraid to face, or unwilling to face. That's a wealth of rationalizations to explain it. why they are seeking professional help. They Consciously they will tell you any story that want you to understand things that they do seems to be reasonable, and they'll tell it to not consciously know, that they are you with great intensity. They will often depending on you to understand. make you believe it, but they are using that The most important things is to know particular story for a purpose. A person that you can rely on yourself, and allow your seeking therapy comes in and tells you one subconscious to feed you the right story that is believed fully at the conscious information that causes you to do the level and in nonverbal language can give appropriate thing at the right time. you a story that is entirely different. Verbal and nonverbal communications HOW THE CLIENT WILL TEST YOU between any two people frequently contradict one another. Verbal agreement The client needs to know if you have the might be accompanied by a whole range of right kind of strength and will often test you facial expressions, hand movements, body movements, eye movements and even voice tendered in courteous language and manner - inflections that imply disagreement. Often are in serious error. Your concern with the clients, while explaining their problems, will client's welfare includes doing things that unwittingly nod or shake their heads to can be embarrassing or upsetting to them contradict their actual verbalizations. when you feel it is necessary to motivate them to use their potential and understand When you are listening to a client, you their experience. Be concerned with the can never clearly understand him, because client's welfare, not with being liked or you're listening with your ears and thinking admired by them. Never comfort the client, with your own vocabulary. The client's when their welfare requires otherwise, such vocabulary is entirely different and each of as during the reliving of emotional suffering. us has a different meaning to the words The best kind of therapy is that which meets used. Use feedback, restatement and the client's needs and offers the best possible reframing to increase communication and therapeutic results without regard for social mutual understanding. niceties or questions of etiquette. In therapy, As the therapist utilizes the client's style humor can be very useful because clients of communication to convey meaning, the bring in much grief and sadness, but don't be client begins to feel understood, secure and afraid to “bring the hammer down” when relieved of the burden of deciphering what necessary! When you're afraid to say a word the therapist says. A therapeutic relationship or to name a condition to a client, you're forms and cooperation increases. going to alert the client to the fact that you are afraid. The one ruling principle is to TRUST AND HONESTY focus on the client's welfare. Your professional dignity is never involved but An important part of all client's desire to your professional competence always is. be understood and accepted is the need to find someone who will be honest with them, Because each client is unique, the form and will acknowledge the validity of their of intervention and the type of change accurate perceptions. This does not mean required is unique as well. The therapist that their irrational fears and irrational creates a setting wherein the client's needs, beliefs must always be given credence, but it thoughts and actions are primary and where does mean that the therapists should avoid the client feels understood, accepted and argument and agree when there is truth in willing to cooperate. what the client says. Clients trust therapists Therapists must not allow their own who tell them the truth, although it is largely needs or preferences to determine the the client who determines what is true and therapy process. The client's potentials, what is not. The development of trust knowledge and needs are unique and depends upon honesty and acceptance. Once therapists must have the flexibility to clients have learned that the therapist can be respond to, utilize and redirect that trusted, then the therapist can begin to direct uniqueness. Individualize your therapy to them toward topics and experiences that they meet the needs of the client. Re-education otherwise would avoid. occurs in terms of the client's life Therapists who insist that everything experiences, his understandings, memories they present is good and acceptable - and and attitudes; it cannot occur in terms of the must be accepted because it is always therapist's opinions of how the client “should” live their life! induce hypnotic subjects, in response to hypnotic suggestions, to perform acts of an Give the client complete freedom, or objectionable character, even though many create an illusion of complete freedom. You of the suggested acts were acceptable to can give the client a feeling of choice even them under circumstances of waking though you are determining it. Effective consciousness. Apparently, in attempting to therapists seem to be especially adept at induce felonious behavior by hypnosis, the presenting information within a context that danger lies not in the possibility of success, has personal significance or importance. but in the risk to the hypnotist himself. They allow their clients to experience things that demonstrate the truth of what they are The subjects demonstrated a full saying in a direct and undeniable fashion. capacity and ability for self-protection, ready Clients learn things that are therapeutic; they and complete understanding with critical are not “cured” by therapists, the therapy judgement, avoidance, evasion or complete process is always a learning process. Always rejection to instrumentalization by the avoid perfectionistic drives and wishes on hypnotist, and for aggression and retaliation, the part of the clients and motivate them to direct and immediate, against the hypnotist begin with the achievement of lesser goals. for his objectionable suggestions and Achieving the lesser goal creates a more commands. Neither is hypnosis injurious or confident output of effort that leads to detrimental to the subject in any way, nor reaching larger and more significant goals. can it be used for anti-social or criminal As we begin to think of ourselves as purposes. educators, the utilization of technique and Briefly, there are not injurious or the general set of underlying attitudes detrimental effects upon the subject other becomes more comprehensible and usable. than those that can develop in any other The major shortcut to the process of normal interpersonal relationship; hypnosis gaining access to the client's subconscious is cannot be used for anti-social or criminal hypnosis. Hypnosis can accelerate the purposes. In over 30 years of experimental therapist's understandings of and response to and clinical work with hypnosis I have not the messages sent by the client's been able to discover any harmful effects.... subconscious. Milton Erickson, M.D.

QUOTES FROM MILTON ERICKSON, M.D. Hypnosis does not create new abilities. All hypnotic phenomena depend upon the Because subjects remain the same people use of normal capacities in new ways. when hypnotized, their tendency to protect Similarly, hypnosis does not create themselves remains operative as well. For automatons who respond unthinkingly to this reason, hypnosis cannot usually be used any and all suggestions. Subjects will reject for destructive or harmful purposes with suggestions that they find unacceptable. normal individuals, even unintentionally. Milton Erickson, M.D. Milton Etickson, M.D.

One hundred percent of normal people The findings disclosed consistently the are hypnotizable. It does not follow that one failure of all experimental measures to hundred percent are hypnotizable by any one The subject cannot be forced to do things individual at any given time. Practically all against his will, but rather he can be aided in normal people can be hypnotized, though achieving desired goals. We both know that not necessarily by the same person, and the knowledge is in your subconscious mind. practically all people can learn to be Your subconscious will know what to do hypnotists. and how to do it. Milton Erickson, M.D. Milton Erickson, M.D.

Any really cooperative subject may be Anyone who sets out to become an hypnotized regardless of whether he is a effective Hypnotherapist is undertaking an normal person, a hysterical neurotic or a incredibly difficult and complex journey. psychotic schizophrenic client. Gaining the perspective and skill necessary Milton Erickson, M.D. to engage in effective hypnotherapy is, in and of itself, a monumental endeavor. Adding the task of becoming a proficient You cannot hypnotize any client who is hypnotist who can use the hypnotic process subconsciously unwilling to be hypnotized. in a therapeutic setting probably magnifies Any unwillingness on the part of the several times the effort and dedication subjects will cause them to become required. unresponsive and to awaken. Milton Erickson, M.D. Milton Erickson, M.D. The whole field of hypnotic research is In the light of present day knowledge still so undeveloped that there is very little hypnotism is looked upon in intelligent general understanding either of how to circles as a normal though unusual and little hypnotize a subject satisfactorily, or of how understood phenomenon of the human mind, to elicit the hypnotic phenomena which are dependent wholly upon the cooperation of to be studied, after the subject has been the subject, and which can be practiced by satisfactorily hypnotized. anybody willing to learn the psychological The readiness to accept and to examine principles and techniques involved. each item of behavior that seems related to Milton Erickson, M.D. hypnosis is most important, we need to take the attitude that there are things we do not know or understand, and because we do not I am not greatly concerned about the understand them, we ought not attempt to depth of trance the client is in because I find offer comprehensive formulations of that one can do extensive and deep hypnosis as a total phenomenon, but rather hypnotherapy in the light trance as well as in endeavor to identify manifestations as such the deeper medium trance. One merely needs and examine their relation to each other. to know how to talk to a client in order to secure therapeutic results. Milton Erickson, M.D. Milton Erickson, M.D. The able hypnotist is the one who is able to adapt technique to the personality needs of each subject. Thus, some subjects want to fundamental problem facing us all, i.e., how be dominated, others coaxed, still others to overcome our client's feelings of persuaded. A good Hypnotherapist varies the helplessness in specific situations and train details of his technique from subject to them to develop coping skills. Boyne does subject, fitting it to the peculiarities of each this by leading the client to recognize their personality. inner creative intelligence and to define it as Milton Erickson, M.D. the evidence of their “divine nature.” Here is a therapist who focuses on what ABOUT GIL BOYNE people do and how they do it, without imposing a set of limiting assumptions and Gil Boyne is internationally recognized theoretical constructs between his perception for his radical and provocative contributions and the client's inner world. He teaches his to the profession of hypnotherapy. Students clients to alter their perception which have come to his institute from throughout motivates them to use their inner capabilities the U.S.A. and from numerous other to cope creatively with the realistic demands countries for intensive study to clarify the of their lives. concepts used so effectively in the Boynian approach to therapy. Boyne's fundamental orientation toward life, and the central theme of his work, is He is hailed by many as one of the most that people must learn to recognize their creative and effective hypnotherapists in the fullest potential. He has concluded that no field at this time, who easily hypnotizes the single theory can explain or describe the most difficult clients. Boyne demonstrates variety and complexity of individual an extraordinary variety and effectiveness in functioning. He teaches that hypnotherapy is his hypnotic inductions and he teaches that a mystical (non-scientific) art based on a the initial induction must be suited to the foundation of spiritual philosophy. client's needs which can be intuitively perceived. His style is so innovative and his Boyne's understanding of hypnosis success rate so high that many of his clients seems purely descriptive. He offers no are people referred to him by other therapists elaborate theoretical definitions and avoids or those who are themselves therapists. physiological or psychological explanations. In fact, he explicitly states that no scientific He remains an iconoclast with strong explanation exists, despite the many and unusual convictions, who is never afraid different explanations from the “experts. “ of confrontations. “When I am doing my work I am very confident - I look and act Boyne rejects the term “unconscious,” confident. I speak in a confident manner...” because it creates negative interpretations These comments are a remarkable summary such as being “knocked unconscious” by a of Boyne's life and style and provide an blow to the head or by drugs. He believes insight into a man who is so convinced that that the word “subconscious” is always he is right that he challenges the traditional better, and refers to “different levels of assumptions and techniques of the scientific awareness.” The conscious-unconscious and professional community and blazes his dichotomy itself is a source of confusion, own path. because it fails to capture the complexity of human functioning. Boyne views multiple His teachings convey the essential levels of awareness which include ingredients of his solution to the most information processing and response from a variety of perspectives. a powerful and effective clinician who can cure the most resistant clients, he challenges Even among his graduates there is some the “primacy of the therapist” attitude that confusion as to whether his effectiveness pervades most other approaches and argues can be attributed to him as a person, or to his vehemently that it is the client's needs, unique perspective and wisdom. Some beliefs, abilities and general welfare which become particularly effective at imitating his define the character of the therapy. physical and verbal mannerisms in using the techniques he developed and teaches. Although imitation may be effective in many circumstances, it seems clear that only by learning the fundamental concepts that guide him, and adopting his underlying perspective, can we hope to create similar dramatic interventions with a majority of our clients. He does not tell therapists exactly what to do in every therapy situation, but he does tell them how to think so that they will know what to do. Such a teaching approach demands a greater tolerance for ambiguity than the presentation of specifics and requires a greater dedication to conceptual flexibility than the presentation of specific techniques for specific problems. Boyne learned how to intervene in and influence human thought and behavior by paying close attention to everything the client says and does. He has a great awareness of the meanings, implications and nature of words and the inherent flexibility of language. Boyne's ability to “read” people, to know things that they do not know about themselves and to see through their attempts to hide information is remarkable. Each movement, each word, each inflection of a person is observed and noted, on the basis of his acquired understandings. As a result, he enables clients to discover potentials they did not realize they owned and helps them resolve personal problems that other professionals had been unable to reach. Although Boyne has been recognized as